The glistening painted tear trembled and slid out of the old man’s eye and down his face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were going home to rest and eat supper; they would be back later, after dark, old man Ku’oosh told him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the old man had something to say to him, why couldn't he just say it? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Do you wonder why I am here?" the old man said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The fish hit the wire several times more and each time he shook his head the old man gave up a little line. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You bought me a beer,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spry old man in a natty blue blazer scurries out to join him onstage. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

When he was done painting, he walked up to the old man and placed his gun to the old man’s head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The watery face does look like my mother's, but I remember the old man who gave us directions. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This old man can pay off your debt!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man took it and drank it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen made fun of the old man and he was not angry. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Name of Meshe, to laugh at a child’s death,” said a fat old man in purple sitting heavily down beside me, his leggings bunched around his thighs like skirts, his face heavy with disgust. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man listened with a puzzled expression as he held an unlit cigar in his delicate fingers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Oedipus the old man’s mind was wandering; what he said was sheer madness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old, old man came through the door. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then went on to chide Jefferson for talking like an old man. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The old man leafed through the book, and fell to reading a page he came to. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was gone and the old man felt nothing. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost noon before she saw the man she wanted, a prosperous shipowner she had seen doing business with the old man three times before. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old man pointed towards the two hatchways that gave entrance to the lower world. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here he was, an old man, opening the gate he had built with his own hands, his hair blowing silver in twilight. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s words delighted the son of Odysseus, who kept his chair no longer but stood up, eager to speak, in the midst of all the men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” an old man said, “it’s the screecher girl.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The staff thought Rumfoord was a hateful old man, conceited and cruel. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man heard the father’s body falling and then he saw the boy run out of the house fifteen seconds later. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner, an old man burst out yelling in his tongue; the object of these expostulations being one of Bono’s friends, Charles. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The old man lifted the frame and stood it against the wall with several others. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The old man’s white- stubbled face had flushed pink. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The old man smiled, greeting him by name, and asked, “Do you know who I am?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes. The old man pretends to linger at a potter's stall, but the brown one has eyes only for you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The old man is pulling my leg, of course. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At some point later in the morning it’s possible that we shook hands — I just don’t remember—but I do know that by the time I’d finished packing the old man had disappeared. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food was long cold and the old man was asleep on his bench, but how quick it had all been! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

While everyone around us talked about the tragedy and asked themselves where he had been, the old man came back down the driveway to inspect the body of his daughter's estranged husband. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Can I help you!” an old man asked, but he asked it extremely loudly, so it was more like a scream. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old man dragged her well off the road into a tan-gle of trees, cursing and muttering all the while. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Here. And after it shut we went over to that other café. The old man there speaks German and English." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She looked like an old man dressed up like an old woman. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Saleem saw the old man throw that clod at me, and he did nothing but laugh. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Auntie said that—” The old man waved his arms at Tayo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on, unwrap the rest,” said the woman to the old man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the stillness after battle I looked up at the mountain- tops; perhaps the old man and woman were watching me and would enjoy my knowing it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the old man they shot in District 11, and Bonnie and Twill, and the rumored uprisings. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked down at the muddy tracks made by the wagon wheels. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked out of his door and was surprised to see the people standing there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She still hadn’t asked it the main question, and now this old man was having a conversation with her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes; I’ll tell you how it’s signed,” said the old man, his hands trembling. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I suspect Call wanted him to go on as much as I did, but the old man stopped right there. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man at one of the tables clapped feebly, and Ignatius peered over the rim of the stage and saw that the proprietress was gone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the old man lay upstairs, after a second stroke, and lingered, giving no trouble. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And if the book was irritating, as the old man had said, the boy still had time to change it for another. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little old man with a baby carriage made into a pushcart with a charcoal burner, and the smell of roasting chestnuts, and snow on the ground. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Tonight I drinking with my son. And one, please, for my friend,” he said, patting the old man on the back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boy carried the hot can of coffee up to the old man’s shack and sat by him until he woke. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to edge around the Ancient, but the old man caught his arm. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Even with the fetters gone, Reek moved like an old man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“That was just the excuse of an old man.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Chubs squatted down beside me, his knees cracking like an old man’s. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“The old man of the sea,” I remembered. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Is he?” teased the unregenerate old man, pinching his pointy jaw gravely in a parody of repentance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden marquee with an old man eating something out of a paper bag, and then the car was out of hearing too. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy stood on one side, the old man on the other. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He went over to the bakery and bought a loaf of bread, thinking about whether or not he should tell the baker what the old man had said about him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This old man had only done the same thing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man had been chased away because of his spells and now they were going to have to beg him to come back again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He had never heard such shocking blasphemies before, and he wondered with instinctive logic why G-men did not appear to lock the traitorous old man up. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Most people haven’t heard of them, but one old man tells me, “Sorry you came all this way. I’m afraid they been ate up by weather and the elements.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Probably the lost thing was the old man’s left sock, or his hairbrush. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everything about the car was smooth and soft and powerful, and the smell of the old man’s cologne was strong in the enclosed space. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stunned by the blows, the old man was crying: “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me ... You’re killing your father... I have bread . . . for you too . .. for you too . . .” He collapsed. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the day was over and he was upstairs taking off his boots and slicker, he saw the old man from the generator room and went to talk to him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring any of the papers of the time that I was gone,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I felt oppressed by the old man’s expectations. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’ll do you good to shake yourself a little, girl. If I can find out about that old man, I’ll invite him over, too. You and him can dance.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man squinted one of his eyes and added, “How about that?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Matt remembered with a chill how often the old man had spoken of the Chaldean kings. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old man, well past fifty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old man nodded over to a spiral notebook, a beat-up thermos, and a bunch of stubby pencils bundled together with a thick rubber band. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man made his way through the handcarts and fishmongers fresh from the sea, stubbing his toes on the cobbles and bumping into sailors on shore leave. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“By the way, love that jacket, old man,” Bunny said to me as we were getting out of the taxi. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The old man felt the fingers, warm and firm. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The peach was so delicious, I wish for all of you to be able to taste it. If you would humor an old man and stay a little while, I’ll share my good fortune.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

"We'll stay in the holdfast, with the gates barred," the old man said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was too close to the old man, we were always within striking distance of each other. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man chuckled softly and reached for the buckets of the girl standing behind me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A singer had made a song about the axe that cracked his jaw in half, and the old man loved to hear it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The people listen silent and solemn to the old Shaper’s song on the young man’s lips, and the pyre where the old man lies stands waiting for fire. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man obviously wanted to hold it, but Tendai knew that would go against custom. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I allowed myself to sacrifice this boy and his mother, perhaps even myself, and let the old man yell this one bloody murder, if only for Mitt. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the instant’s respite the old man sank upon the ground and the little boys lay down in the dust, heedless of the feet trampling everywhere about them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“You must be mighty ashamed of your old man,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the street, I picked out a friendly-looking old man and asked him where the depot was. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s an old man outside. Come on out.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks again,” he said to the old man. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

How could such a mean old man do such amazing things? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see that you needed to hear that this closed-up, tricky, dangerous old man . . . loved you. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

An old man was standing before them, his wide, pale eyes shining like moons through the gloom of the shop. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

While we’re drinking our tea an old man passes our door with a bucket in his hand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t need that old man worrying about me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I turn around and am surprised to see the old man trembling. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Gandalf,’ the old man repeated, as if recalling from old memory a long disused word. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He crossed the garden in what felt like only two strides and threw his arms around the old man as carefully as he could. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I look into a back room and see an old man sleeping. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Here the old man set his bag down, knocked on the green door, paused, then opened it, standing courteously aside to motion his following in before him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helped out my old man in the shop. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

You could blame the munitions makers or Karl Marx or a trick of fate or an old man in Omaha who forgot to vote. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man jabbed a finger at him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘Not well,’ said the old man: ‘that would be the study of many lives. But I come here now and again.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There was no sense in it, thought the old man tiredly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That can never be done,” the old man said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” replied the old man, putting his hat back on, “I’ll tell you, but first let me tell you what Gall did.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The old man opened his eyes wide at us and turned in a circle, surrounded. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of Peacekeepers dragging the old man who whistled to the top of the steps. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His long, clean, yellow teeth appeared and disappeared in a yellow face all webbed, though he was not an old man, with fine, soft wrinkles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at that rabbit!’ the old man said. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

All of their questions pointed to Jan. “But Britten,” asked one of the men, “why did the old man want this Erlone released?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maniac shook Grayson awake, but stayed the old man’s hand when he reached to turn on the light. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uneven voice sounded like a very old man. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Wake up old man,” the boy said and put his hand on one of the old man’s knees. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now hold on, Blackie,” says the old man with the jug. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The music stopped and both mother and daughter turned around to look at the old man as he yelled, “Inés, my daughter! Listen to me, m’ija. Gabriel is home! Inés! Your husband is home!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The old man stopped fiddling with his fingers, and looked sharply at the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man smiled and pointed down the road. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"Do mine," Yoyo begged, and Papi placed a penny in the old man's slotted hands so that the coin looked like the wheel of a boat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Enough, old man, make an end to it, Tyrion thought irritably. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Magpie had brought not only Meggie but an old man. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You told the old man about me even though you promised you wouldn’t.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then they went back to the village, where all the people were waiting to welcome the old man back into their midst. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The old man took a gulp from a bottle filled with rum and leaves and limped towards the yard where the fight was taking place. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The sun, behind his head, gave him a halo, but he smelled awful, like old fish and old man, both of which needed a bath. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The whistle, the salute, our hesitation on the verandah, the murder of the old man. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He found that his lips were still too numb for speech, and he wanted desperately to be beyond earshot of the old man’s plaintive questioning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how much he sees at that depth, the old man thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In confidence, the old man tells me that he gave all thirteen sons the same name to try to outwit the regime. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man spoke of nothing but shoes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The old man’s voice was slow and rusty. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a very small old man, but he had a huge bald head and a face that was covered all over with bristly black whiskers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I know he is still trying to impress Mrs. Walton, and I so want to tell the old man he doesn’t stand a chance. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The boy—a stocky, sharp-eyed, talkative towhead of about twelve—was exuberantly grateful, but the old man, whose face was seamed and yellow, feebly crawled into the back seat and slumped there silently. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nately’s father was discreet and cultured; this old man was a boor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

For the first time since Harry had met Dumbledore, he looked less than an old man, much less. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The old man in front of him wore the robes of a university medik. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The old man recalled that she had been in his store not long before, and along with some other improbable information she had disclosed that her name was April. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He perched in the stand, both hands wrapped around the head of his cane now, a tremulous and gangling old man. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In Hidalgo the old man who took care of the mail glanced sharply at Jethro when he noticed the inscription on the envelope. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the old man died in that hour and fell upon his face; and no other tidings of the ancient dwellers in the mountains have our folk ever learned. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“No, wait—” said Will, before Sir Charles could speak, but Lyra ran around the desk, and from nowhere Pantalaimon was in her arms, a snarling wildcat baring his teeth and hissing at the old man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Charleston,” Percy said, hobbling around the deck like an old man. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The old man shrugged and gave a short laugh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But they never discovered or disturbed the mound where the old man lay buried. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It is your only chance at life,” said Odin, in a voice so old and cracked that Loki could not tell whether it was the voice of an old man or an old woman. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Tell me from the beginning. What old man? What happened?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hunched over like an old man, protecting, I guess, my ribs—they hurt more when I stood straight. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The corners of the old man’s eyes crinkled, amused. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, folks say I’m the spitting image of my old man.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The old man himself walking around his grounds, beating the side of his shiny boots with a riding crop. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had become an old man in the five years since she had seen him—an old man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiger shuddered, and my father watched as the old man stood up and turned toward the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Up out of the swirling, silvery mass rose a little old man revolving slowly in the Pensieve, silver as a ghost but much more solid, with a thatch of hair that completely covered his eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The old man from the church glides up to me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"Well spoken, child," said the old man in white. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The old man was still sitting by the fence cradling his leaf-crammed bottle of rum. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When the time came to meet Isabelle and Etienne at the theater, he didn’t want to break his promise, so he made excuses to the old man, left the station, and ran to the cinema. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Why, they are the sockets for the pins to fit into,” the old man said. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“To tell you the truth, Santa, I don’t think I want to meet this old man.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man opened the chipped green door with a large key. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man just reminds him of defeat.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When I told him I’d be leaving, the old man nodded as if he already knew. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice a day, at eleven and six, the old man takes the dog out for a walk. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t meant to help the old man, btit he remembered that they needed information from him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In a comer an old man was boiling hot dogs in a large institutional pot whose size dwarfed the gas range upon which it rested. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your old man would love that. Only natural for a father to want his son to walk his walk. He always said he thought you’d be great at the paper business.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, then back to the old man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I think about what the old man means and immediately dismiss his words as crazy. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born right here in California. My old man had a chicken ranch, ‘bout ten acres. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered how Mr. Phaneuf had rescued him once when Harvey Cranch had cornered him near the old man’s barn. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man and an old woman were help I had only wished for. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The old man tried to train his sons, but neither one was as good as he was.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m blind! I don’t know colors!” the old man groused. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But the old man had raised his hand up to dead even again. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said Hail Marys, Our Fathers, remembering my intention by thinking of the old man’s hat, held against his chest. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nazario waited a few seconds, and just when he was about to apologize the old man lifted his hand to indicate he wasn’t finished yet. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

"You ought to have more self-respect than to fight an old man," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man calmly straightened the toys on the counter and said to the boy, “You should not have returned here, Hugo Cabret. Now go away.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man’s cough rose querulously out of the dusky dawn and he said to her, “Take to my father first a bowl of hot water for his lungs.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He kept his hands crossed behind his back most of the time, like an old man. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He paid Rudy to undress them both, then pick up the old man like a baby, lay him on his bed, then stand over him and sprinkle him all over with talcum powder. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man did not move in his chair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The old man looked at him with something like amusement. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The frame’s fixed to the wall,” said the old man, “but I could unscrew it for you, I dare say.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if the old man’s deadly silence was a dangerous dark hole that had to be filled up quickly with lots of words. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For how long?” mocked the profane old man with a gleam of malicious elation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Good thing my old man has dental insurance.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which makes it more surprising in my son,” said the old man, “for he was not brought up to the Law, but to the Wine-Coopering.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like the way you talk, old man. Why don’t I carve a few more wrinkles in your face?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old man never taught his son how to fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he brandished his statistics and the results of the last elections in front of them, his own party members suspected they were just the senile rantings of an old man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said “Good morning, old man” to me and called Marie “mademoiselle.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Lassie was in England at last, safe for a while with a kindly old man and woman who planned to keep her forever. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But you always loved your old man, didn’t you?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My voice sounded strange to me, how I might sound as an old man, if I lived long enough. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really get a chance to solve the mystery of what happened to the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, an old man, and I, though slow to sprout, was fleet of foot. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an air of fear about him, and after I spot the large gold cross around the old man’s neck I figure this must be the preacher the Duchess warned me about. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“He... The old man was all right. I got along with him okay.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have been expelled,” said an old man who was as agitated as the other. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old man apparently had no idea that there had been any money behind his books. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The old man grunted, shrugged, and went back to his bloody work. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The broken body of the old man withered more and more, but when the smell of harvest and the hunt came with October, his spirit seemed to quicken his dragging step. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of habit, the old man says, “I’m sorry, sir.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He looked like an impoverished old man, one of those sad wandering souls who travel the provinces hawking their wares from door to door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai took out his knife and pointed it toward the nearest person, an old man with a floppy hat the same color and texture as the ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sumac flew off to the sky world to make room for the old man to lean on my shoulder. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar went back to his high, carved chair, relinquishing the bowl to the noblest of his thanes, and sat like an old man listening inside his mind to the voices of his childhood. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about running again; he was stronger than the old man and he could fight his way out of this. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"If you see an old man outside my room, will you knock on the wall to let me know?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don't even stop when I accidentally collide with an old man. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The shark swung over and the old man saw his eye was not alive and then he swung over once again, wrapping himself in two loops of the rope. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s eyes traveled to the painting of the girl over the mantelpiece. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This wrinkled old man in a straw hat tried to show me something when I poured out the water. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They helped the old man to his feet and handed him his cane. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But all he found was the heavy book, his jacket, and the two stones the old man had given him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened it, raised his hand above it, fingers stretched taut, and again a mysterious icy stone appeared, just below the old man’s skin. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He wanted to think the old man was just psyching him out, but something told him the prediction was true. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could hear that bullet whizzing by my head, the old man’s cry when it passed through his arm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Good!” the old man whispered, sitting up in the bed and rubbing his hands. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old man bent down, grabbed something, and then in a sharp voice said, “Go! And stay out of mischief!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You never knelt down and prayed—you fainted clean away,” said the old man’s woodpecker dæmon from the workbench. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The old man had spoken about signs and omens, and, as the boy was crossing the strait, he had thought about omens. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a crabby old man who hates everyone.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Now an old man distributed these and some tiny boxes of raisins to everyone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I clamped the plank to the ribs like the old man told me, and drilled holes for the new screws. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until later, when I was full- grown and Hrothgar was an old, old man, that I settled my soul on destroying him—slowly and cruelly. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Heavens! What fire?” asked the old man, startled. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bucket smiled at the old man, then she turned to her husband and said, “How about you, dear? Don’t you think you ought to go?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old man still smiles, thin red lips stretched garishly over large front teeth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Through the indigo murk, she could make out the wizened features at the Undying One to her right, an old old man, wrinkled and hairless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The old man who was guarding the clothing of that one Mississippi regiment was asleep against the rail fence, his mouth open. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man raised an eyebrow at me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing next to him was an old man with a bushy white beard and gray hair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Most of them barely glance at us, but eventually, an old man shuffles up, adjusts his dusty white turban, and leans on his cane. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

An old man belonging to Colonel Lloyd, while thus engaged, happened to get beyond the limits of Colonel Lloyd’s, and on the premises of Mr. Beal Bondly. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s voice quavered the word into a whole flock of syllables. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A surly old man stood above him, scowling down. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The old man was tall and his chest was wide; at one time he had been heavier, but old age was consuming everything but the bones. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How can I save you,” the old man said, “if I can’t save myself?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I think we’ve proved that the old man couldn’t have heard the boy say, “I’m going to kill you,” but supposing— 10TH JUROR: You didn’t prove it at all. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man whom he had followed was standing at the bar, having some kind of altercation with the barman, a large, stout, hook-nosed young man with enormous forearms. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The old man doesn't seem to mind that we woke him up. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Just then he heard Senator Trueba’s footsteps in the hallway and seconds later, before he could catch his breath, the old man walked into the library. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the adults began to gather around the old man, the children returned to their game. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As Nazario said this an old man who was about to open his barbershop on 110th and Lexington crossed the street to greet him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But the old man was nowhere in sight. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Emerging from one of them, the jittery holographic scene of an old man in a turban speaks to a young boy with tattered clothing. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But be crazy if you like. Crazy! This is not what we do. I know. Tell me, Parky, tell a stupid old man. What would be our interest?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man had never once berated him for Sabbath-breaking, never reminded him how often he had pointed out that pride goeth before a fall. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man who’d given up his seat saw us noticing and said, in English, “Amsterdam’s spring snow. The iepen throw confetti to greet the spring.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A fortnight later, the old man came to Mac very excited. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man signaled to Garikayi, who quickly produced cups and a thermos of sweet milky tea. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monkeys ran off into the darkness, and the old man began to pick his way through the ruins of the courtyard, with Pinmei and Amah following. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“A Thanksgiving turkey,” the old man suddenly barked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cannot know that it is only one man against him, nor that it is an old man. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to make me cry,” Samuel said, “and that would be an unseemly thing in an old man.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night when the girls were fast asleep, the old man snuck out the door and walked into the dark forest. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Pedro stared at her with his sad old man’s look and shook his head. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guessed that when the old man’s drink was gone, the story he told would be over as well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"The old man is Lord Commander of the Night's Watch," Sam reminded him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The old man laughed and slid the shiny black object out of his pocket. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Why, it’s the old man who went wild and started rootin’ in the forest Wherever did you get hold of him?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I was wary of the old man and didn’t take the cup of fresh water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Stop clicking the street with your heels,” the old man hissed through his teeth. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He looked back and saw the old man and the bantam policeman grappling beneath the department store clock. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know that I am in your fathers age group, gbo?” the old man asked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Strauss scholars disagree on whether his withdrawal was a rejection of his previous accommodation with the regime, a suspicion that it might not last, or simply an old man choosing retirement. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I believed it when I was a little boy,” he told an old man standing nearby. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung said stoutly, “I have never had any good from that old man in heaven, yet. Incense or no incense, he is the same in evil. Let us go and see the land.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“The boss was expectin’ you last night,” the old man said. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bedroom, and the other crazy old man upstairs sat at the far end of the room, in the near darkness, bundled up in his coat and hat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, you win be one soon enough, won’t you?” asked the old man, impatiently. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote a short story about an old man who lived all by himself in a house down the block. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he sang, the old man took an arrow from a young man’s bow and shot it toward the singing bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

For the next six months, until the warder was transferred, the old man would smuggle that day’s newspaper to Mac. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An anger Longstreet had never seen before contorted the old man’s face. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the right side of the bear footprints, the old man painted paw prints in blue, and then yellow, and finally white. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He read aloud all the books the old man had learned to read, and he finished with the old man’s favorite, Mike Mulligan’s Steam Shovel. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy slid out of his chair and took the old man’s hand. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He knew, of course, that Dumbledore was getting on in years, but somehow he never really thought of Dumbledore as an old man. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I had to work in Sonny’s Shop. You know my old man makes me dress up like this when I’m behind the desk.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man leaned down, so close that the bottoms of his mustache tickled Coraline’s ear. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“We have a goose,” the old man said, “which we ought to have given your lordships. But if you will only wait, it shall be done at once.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Das put new locks on our doors and windows and began to pay an old man to watch the workroom at night. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I might be an old man before I’m a man at all. I might be dead before.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is right?” cried the old man, looking after him with a face of misery. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panting with the exertion of slashing through an old man’s rib cage, Macon ran back to get the blanket the man had been sleeping on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are scarcely in season,” said the old man reprovingly, and he walked off in the direction of the cottage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, he is only an old man, far from home and sick at heart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You came at a good time,” the old man said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded polite and murmured my “Good day” to the old man we called Grandfather and the others who were familiar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time I had guessed from their manner that the old woman was to the old man a sister or a friend rather than a wife. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the back of Stagecoach Pass is the gold mine, run by a cranky old man named Bob who clearly hates children. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The old man put his hat on, and the last rat was gone. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Wednesday was smiling, and Nancy was laughing delightedly, an old man’s cackle, and even the dour Czernobog seemed to be enjoying himself. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t let a sad old man ruin them. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Every day, that old man would tell him, “Take Gladiola out and run her to the blue marker.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I am still an old man. But I am not unarmed.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old man speaking to the beast. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The old man felt faint and sick and he could not see well. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go away,” the old man whispered, letting go of Hugo. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But under the hood, his hair was white and thin, and his flesh had an old man’s greyish undertone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The next day, Oskar and the old man went to the Empire State Building, I waited for them on the street. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The chain parted like a cobweb in the old man's grip. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The old man coughed and reached into his pocket. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I am an old man—an old dying man — and I am here to ask you—beg you—to help me get him back. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

And what puzzled me was that the old man had defined it as treachery. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She urged them to move next to the old man, but they stared at her blankly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a world where her brother had become an old man in his twenties because he was dark, my complexion was something to worry about. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while an old man dressed in a white robe sat by her bed and murmured charms. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man did not appear again, and the horses did not return. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"Cods make uncertain allies at best," the old man insisted, "and that one has no power here." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He bent down like the old man did when he passed through the low doorway. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last he looked at the old man who waited inside. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the time me, Diego and my old man went to Santa Cruz the weekend before he got shipped out. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fish just moved away slowly and the old man could not raise him an inch. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you up to now, old man?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a tall soldierly old man who appeared at the exit from the platform. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Pause that refreshes,” he said, and then: “Let me give you a little tip about Henry, old man.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They looked at each other, the old man still beaming. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Waiting for the Bishop, the old, old man sat down at his reading desk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben’s an old man and been on this plantation all his life. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other men turned their eyes from me back to Grandfather, the old man who sat by the pump, and went back to their argument. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later the bird returned as an old man, and he guided her boxing for many years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My beautiful, sweet brother who shooed bugs out of the house instead of stepping on them, who gave his little ruler to splint a crotchety old man’s leg. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“There is no land east of this land,” said the old man, and he looked long at Ged, and spoke no more to him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was bumping through the zoo in the park pickup when he spotted the body clumped outside the buffalo pen. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man slammed a fist down on the counter, shaking all the toys. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“St. Martin’s in the Fields it used to be called,” supplemented the old man, “though I don’t recollect any fields anywhere in those parts.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, Hannah?” said the old man at the head of the table. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dismayed that the old man was leaving. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lissome, blond, sinuous girl with lovely legs and honey-colored skin laid herself out contentedly on the arm of the old man’s chair and began molesting his angular, pale, dissolute face languidly and coquettishly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Again the old man?” cried the girl in wailing confusion. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Wilder knelt and took the old man’s hand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I killed him in self-defense,” the old man said aloud. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to be my father’s, but when the old man died about six months ago, my ma shifted him onto me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Wednesday pulled out a narrow gold lighter from the pocket of his pale suit, and lit the old man’s cigarette. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She can’t possibly mean the old man I saw just a few moments ago. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I’ll try it again, the old man promised, although his hands were mushy now and he could only see well in flashes. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, a wrinkled old man was waiting for us with a yellow-and-black taxicab. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized that he could do the same thing the old man had done—sense whether a person was near to or far from his Personal Legend. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man only tilted his stone face downward in a stiff nod. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go laugh at your grandmother, mister. That old man is my father,’ he warned. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleeping, Kevan thought... until he blinked and saw the deep red gash in the old man’s spotted skull and the blood pooled beneath his head, staining the pages of his book. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the old man studied it awhile and said, slowly, gingerly: “I.. . see . . . the .. . ball.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s hands were the worst thing about him, Cat decided the next day, as she watched him from behind her barrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old man gathered his own bones and muscles as best he could and managed to hoist the kid and get him into the pickup. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first person to reach him was a mangled old man with scratches and gashes covering his head instead of hair. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you know where we can find Willie Bodega?” the old man asked in slow Spanish. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Though he was not an old man, only a few wisps of hair remained to him, sprouting above his ears, but those he had grown long as a woman's. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The constable grinned and twisted the old man’s arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old man squeezed the lump into a disk, then bent up the edges; the moon became a shallow cup. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not because I believe in your crazy dream. Call it an old man’s whim if you like.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and the sweat salted his eyes and salted the cut over his eye and on his forehead. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right,” said the old man, able to read the boy’s thoughts. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmm . . .” said the old man, looking at all sides of the book, as if it were some strange object. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you think your brother's war is more important than ours?" the old man barked. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The old man quickly tightened the straps on the boy’s life vest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Wednesday walked out into the firelight, a big old man with a glass eye in a brown suit and an old Armani coat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“They are very religious people, you know,” the old man said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man grunted and with a push he finally let go of Hugo’s arm. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Why doesn’t the old man send for a look? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Mrs. L. is right,’ the old man went on. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Please," the old man said, stretching out an arm, "your master is having a grand feast. Surely you can spare a small bit for me?" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Drop a hello on the old man for me.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Kane calls the first old man to the platform. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if God is a boy or a girl or an old man with a white beard. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A day after the old man spoke in the courtyard, Mr. Milgrom whispered to me in a corner of the room. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He had eyes only for the old man who had invented him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But there nearly always is something else to decide by,” exclaimed the old man. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man raised a pepper gray eyebrow. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The old man nodded, not unkindly, and started toward one of the far stalls, carrying the collar. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Go get the strippers on Bourbon Street,” an old man added. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorty still played with his band, Rudy never missed attending his sensitive old man, or the table- waiting at his exclusive parties, and the girls maintained their routine home schedules. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But apparently there were other people who were just as firmly convinced of the old man’s guilt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes, for old man I have powers—my feet have traveled across the ocean until now this girl has my same feet.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“What do you and that old man talk about?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Dance? I don’t feel like dancing with 110 old man. Besides, my feet swole up this afternoon while I was ironing them uniforms.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day there was still that sickness inside me, but it wasn’t the old man’s corpse so much, it was that awesome act of greeting the dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She floated back over to the old man, touching him tenderly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The old man was gazing silently ahead into the rising dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he watched the old man play, he saw things that captivated him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man took a deep breath, held it, and let it out. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man walking his dog at night. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The old woman seemed not to understand what he meant with his gestures and quiet words; the old man did understand, and refused. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The old man raised his open hands in the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The old man falls forward, arms thrown out in front of him, and weeps with gratitude. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following Nick, the old man watched with interest as the storekeeper, after searching among the ammunition for a moment, selected a box of .45 shells, which he slapped into Amarante’s hands. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall old man with bulging eyes and a big goiter on his neck pressed a five-dollar gold piece in my hand and got back on the train without saying a word. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

An old man, chest gleaming with medals, face whitened with pancake makeup, steps onto the patio. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And men laughed suddenly at the smiling, wizened little old man, whose sparse white beard was scattered all over his chin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When the sun had risen further the old man realized that the fish was not tiring. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the old man returned to the garage, George slouched off in pursuit of the wagon. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regina would take the boy with her when she nursed Schonberg and Bobby would play his great-cousin as the old man sat in bed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old man with sunken, bloodshot eyes, deep cracks in his face, and a grizzled beard. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the dry yellow grass by the old man’s feet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although he is only twelve his eyes have the look of an old man. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man was leaning over the counter right above her head. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the dirty window was a stone sink, where the old man was pouring something with a shaky hand from a large bottle into a smaller one. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked wonderingly at the old man, whose gentle touch seemed as great a magic as his salve. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Is that a partisan there, that old man with the saw cutting trees? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Icicles long as lances hung from the battlements and fringed the towers like an old man’s stiff white whiskers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now he is twenty-two and already an old man. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give the old man a chance. He’s trying to get his daughter back, alive. He’s given you a big story; now wait.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man did not move, watching him in a stupor of fear. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

His hair is so short, and he’s so skinny, that he looks like a wizened old man. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Why do you care so much for Hizdahr, old man? If he is not the Harpy, he is the Harpy’s firstborn son.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Nope. Nothing they can do. Got to let it run its course. Better not sit so close to me, old man.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

An alien with a big bald spot, just like an old man. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think the old man believed me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The old man had a small, personal hovercar, and it took a while for him to coax it into the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m summoned to help since the old man can’t read what I wrote. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, while playing pepper in the Legion infield, the old man said to the kid, “So why don’t you go ahead and teach me how to read?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If truth be told, I doubt even Lord Frey knows what Lord Frey intends to do. He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No doubt the old man would tell him, in his own good time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was without fault except for the old man waiting for bread. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long, slow process with many stops to allow the old man to rest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women all pecked and puckered at the old man's face. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was an old man at this point, his attention seeming to drift, his hearing a little weak. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They called me by the pet name of Tatomkhulu, which means “Grandpa,” because they said when I was very serious, I looked like an old man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was settled, the old man beckoned Catelyn forward and planted a papery dry kiss on her hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“That’s true,” the old man said, “you could go back to that white place.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Who thinks that?” the old man asked worriedly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s nose was pinched and sharp, his lips thin, his eyes small and close-set. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And Mo took the book from Meggie’s hands, ran his eyes over the lines Fenoglio had added, and in a firm voice read to the end of what the old man had written. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Father Cham!” cried Pong, reaching one hand out for the old man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“You can’t burn my notebook!” he shouted to the old man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone assumed that Pong must be some distant relative of the old man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Don't try telling me the old man read her out of this!” he said. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Theseus, the King of Athens, received him with all honor, and the old man died rejoicing that he was no longer hateful to men, but welcomed as a benefactor to the land that harbored him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man, he thought, and not as big as I am. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think of anything worse for an old man than getting beat up by his wife’s former fee-ance. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Along with them all the old man’s mental peculiarities. Characters remain constant throughout a whole lifetime.” “. . . two rounds of Obstacle Golf to get through before dark. I must fly.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora patted the old man’s arm after the last race. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nately’s father believed in honor and knew the answer to everything; this old man believed in nothing and had only questions. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The old man's indifference infuriated Magistrate Tiger and he ordered the carriage to stop. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Blake,” Bob said, “Your hairline is getting to look like your old man’s. If you keep it up, it will look like mine.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The old man showed an early knack for consonants. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man shook my hand and said I could get free haircuts at his shop. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I figured that out after we stopped at the bodega downstairs on our way home from school one day and she started talking to Hugo, the old man who owns the store. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The old man had said to ask very clear questions, and to do that, the boy had to know what he wanted. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Human beings have done evil things to each other for as long as there’ve been human beings. We also do kind things, too. Rescue a stray dog. Keep an old man company.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ignatius pondered the proposal for some time, scrutinizing the scar on the old man’s nose and belching gassily. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t disturb the body, they just grabbed the old man’s hand and offered a few words and moved away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the boy came back the old man was asleep in the chair and the sun was down. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, there was an old man, tall and silver and dressed in gray. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hugo knew how to walk silently, but he let his feet fall loudly on the tiles to let the old man know he was there. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A prep school kid, a touch arty, wearing an old man’s suit and no doubt reading Camus or Kerouac. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As Ranofer hastily knelt to the box, the old man darted a glance about the shop. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Except the frail, dim figure of Mercer; the old man faced him, a placid expression on his face. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was no way Otto was going to mess with the old man now. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The old man cracked his whip, the horses strained—and the coach rolled up out of the bog. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do they know you go over to that old man’s house? We’ve seen you hanging around there before.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He reaches the singing man, grabs the collar of the old man’s dirty coat, and punches him until his body is limp. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Put it down, old man," I said, thinking, Why am I acting from pride when this is not really me? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For each time they hit the old man, it was the lord who felt it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Can’t sail it. Your old man would know a skiff was missing and be after you in no time.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You just trust your old man,” Dad said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me this creepy look and he says, "You go up there to visit the old man, you tell him Iggy says hello, okay?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The old man studied the triangle for a full minute. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And besides, you ain’t got no talking room, old man. When was the last time you saw your son?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Why the game, man? You just greedy, like your old man? Or what?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the old man who was not his grandfather would shake his head in disgust. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And the old man reached down and plucked some rice from underneath the silk. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was that tone in his voice, that marvelous warmth, that made them all look not at Heth but at Lee, the graybeard, the dark-eyed, the old man, the fighter. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly spat three times at the old man’s feet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The last of these wisdoms came from an old man in the luncheonette. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never gave her gifts the way the old man did. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homer snored like a rich old man every night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But now, her memories came tumbling toward her—a kindly old man, a decrepit castle, a clutch of scholars with their faces buried in books, a mournful mother dragon saying good-bye. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was so odd to see her here in this old man’s house. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

So the two returned gladly and comforted the old man, who in his joy sat feasting with the heroes all through the night. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bodega looked hard into the old man’s eyes as if he wanted them to look back at him and share his strength, come back to life. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ben went on talking in his old man’s voice. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man pointed up the hill with a gnarled finger. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I can remember it,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man turned away and went towards a heap of fallen stones and rock at the foot of the cliff behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The old man we called Grandfather had vanished. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man says, “I know a Coast Guard ship is coming. It came to me in my dream.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The old man related that, the week before, he had been forced to appear before a miner, and had taken the form of a stone. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big gust of sand swirled around them; Rocky turned his back to it and Tayo covered his face with his hands; old man Jeff went inside the post office. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man held his daughter against his chest and nodded. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They nodded and murmured respectful greetings to Danny, and one of them, an incredibly old man with a white beard and a bent body, reached out and touched his arm as we passed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Not until you clarify your relationship with that drooling old man,” the silhouette answered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not so innocent of warcraft as you think, old man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They passed unmolested through them and finally reached a place where an old man was rowing a boat over a stretch of water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man pushed the pile of middle school debris into the corner, then pulled out a million keys, flipping through them like pages of a book. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It had been a sudden and devastating death, and everyone said it was grief that had sapped the old man’s ability to make sense anymore. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The old man shook her so hard her teeth rattled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was an old man attending to some task beside the house, and an old woman leading the goat toward a stool and a bucket. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Next to it was the funeral director, a little man in a ridiculous getup, and an awkward, embarrassed-looking old man. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The old man looked at him curiously, then saw that Alex was staring at the man’s coat pocket. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mark nodded even though the old man couldn’t see him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk like that about someone’s old man.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man calls out, so I walk faster. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

An old man in Kabati repeated this sentence often to people who walked past his house on their way to the river to fetch water, to hunt, to tap palm wine; and to their farms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The old man and Mo drank another cup of coffee in his green kitchen before he took Mo and Meggie up to the attic where he kept his books. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“All,” the old man said, looking at Bodega more closely, “now I know who you are, you are that old boyfriend.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Pa. When he thought of die old man he could see him suddenly in a field in the spring, trying to move a gray boulder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, she swooped into the circle and gave the old man a wet, open-mouthed kiss in his ear. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Peering out through the numbers, Hugo spied the old man again, alone in his toy booth at the end of the hallway, looking through the pages of Hugo’s notebook. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

When I tried to stand, I stumbled, but the old man caught me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You always have had such a good understanding of prophecy, and of spiritual things. You recognize that’s what all of this is— prophecy. You have the kind of understanding that only an old man has. “ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man held the cigarette in the corner of his mouth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The police located the old man, but his short-term memory is poor. He did give them money. He can’t remember how much.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was surprised to find the resentment he had stored up over all these years melt away in the presence of this bent and shrunken old man who was staring up at him in fright. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a contem-porary of Metternich and was an old man with white hair and mustache and beautiful manners. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re tough like your old man. Tougher than nails, right? Just like I named you. Just like your old man.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Where the Argonauts had beached their boat for the night lived a lonely and wretched old man, to whom Apollo, the truth-teller, had given the gift of prophecy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another would sneer “You wouldn’t know your old man if you saw him, he’s been gone so long. You sure you know who your pa is, kid?” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bring my hands to my face, trying to hide my old man tears. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Five days later the old man was dead. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we made him a camp, and we went on, my old man and I, and we stalked the elephant for two days. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the old man came in a cluster of men, outlined under that dark and ominous sky, the lightning blazing beyond his head. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the corner the old man, wrapped in an army overcoat, his feet covered with gunny sacks, his head in a knitted cap, was puttering with a stack of paper bags. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Laurie’s father, who had run away in his youth, and married against the imperious old man’s will. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You catch me,” she said, and darted out before the old man could leave his doorway. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Strangely, as the old man stepped onto the lake, he did not sink but walked straight onto the path of moonlight reflected on the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The old man waved his cigarette towards the doorway to emphasize his point. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The old man raised both his hands and then changed his mind, shrugged, and sat down again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the bottle to the patriarch in his corner, and the old man smiled so sweetly that for the first time I could see he lacked front teeth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violence and shame have lined the old man’s face with mysterious calm. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did the old man say he was going to pay?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That s where you have to dig, the old man said, but he explained that this was not the system he used for digging wells around Tres Marias, because he needed no stick. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day after day he marches into town, negotiating by telegram, and by the following Friday the son has agreed to meet us in Providence and take custody of the old man. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On the other ’and there’s great advantages in being an old man. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She's supposed to be an orphan, but her old man keeps showing up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“All right, John; all right, my boy!” piped the old man from within. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he understood what the old man had meant, about the pain of choosing; he understood that all too well. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He saw the Shadow emerge from the ground, he saw the old man disappear with an expression of infinite amazement on his face, and he saw Capricorn die the death Fenoglio himself had summoned. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old man dug his heel into the dust as his wife approached him, trying to take him home. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But what was it that the old man had said? James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to Coraline that the crazy old man upstairs actually had a name, she realized. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Exactly,” agreed the old man pleasantly, with a hint of taunting amusement. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The Reds say you’re charging ’em with spiriting away the old man’s daughter.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man never blinked, lazily waving his left arm, knocking Red's hand aside. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the long, aggressive, yellowy stigma jutting from the center is like a jaundiced old man's finger. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In my mind I watched her freckled hand move on the old man’s arm as once I’d listened to the sigh of the Shaper’s harp. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had taken over my grandfather’s store around 1942 after the old man left town. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And no dragon would dare shake your house, old man.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Hugo caught his eye and got the distinct impression that the old man wanted him to see what he was doing, as though the old man was performing for him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But the old man opened one eye and smiled his old smile. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His voice softens when he talks about her—he is no longer the toughened leader of this compound, but an old man, reflecting on some fonder past. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then old man Ricks got fed up and sold the place along with our debt to a man called Clayton Bede. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents,” said the old man. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man shook his head from side to side, his fingers laced in his filthy hair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

His portrait in solid gold, Ranofer thought as he watched the old man’s scarred hand slap the stone weights of the spindle around and around. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“And this here’s my daddy,” he said, smiling at a little old man who came around the house leading a big roan horse that was saddled up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You want to go outside and play some Whiffle Ball with your old man before supper?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The old man placed Edward carefully on a crate, positioning him so that he was sitting up and could look out at the sea. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“Your friend, too,” the old man said, putting his periscope down on a table and smiling warmly through his white beard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe remembered being on horseback with the old man, heading up through snowy hills, looking for elk and deer. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jody gave up and went to sit on the steps at the old man’s feet. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man blinked for a moment and then comprehended, and cackled with laughter. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She told me that when she and her cousin were young, they walked by the harness shop one day and chanced to hear an old man say what nice girls they were. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But the old man shook his head slowly and made a low humming sound in his throat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man paid no attention to them and did not pay any attention to anything except steering. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old man with a bushy mustache. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The boy’s parents and the old man bought him toys, bought him everything—new diapers, new plastic pants—not homemade diapers, not bread bags. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was not happy to hear this news. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He looked over at the boy and he looked at the old man. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The old man’s clothes were dirty and old, probably collected like his calendars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man reached down and scratched Radar behind the ears, careful to avoid his bandage. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The boy waited, and then interrupted the old man just as he himself had been interrupted. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wolfed down the yam and ran back to the old man and handed him twenty cents, "Give me two more," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He'll be an old man when he gets out," Grim says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the first day of their meeting the old man clung to him like an evil genius. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The guest of honor,” Mitchell Sanders said, and he placed a can of orange slices in the old man’s lap. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to gather it around my throat with one hand, but only succeed in veering into the path of an old man. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The old man said, “Not a bad fight, boy, not a bad fight at all. You’ll learn. Are you all right?” he asked, as he saw me rubbing my puffed eyes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m an old man,” panted the captain, “and you’re still young. But then, you always beat me, I remember!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man gave a signal, and everyone stood. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man is as still as the lamppost above him. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Only the old man seemed to study the meaning of the words. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Fine, and listen, precious, try and ask by the fish market who that old man is.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man no longer sat in front of his house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The old man squinted down as if seeing him and Penny for the first time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Near where he stood an old man squatted on his haunches beside a great slab of alabaster, examining and blowing at a small hollow in one corner of it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But the old man came to the door and said volubly, “There is no end to the money spent in this house!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

For a moment Taran was sure he had the better of Coll, but; the old man spun away with amazing lightness of foot. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Abruptly he turned and ran back the way he had come, leaving the old man to make what he might of it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And then I saw the recruit, the old man, and the little boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But when I opened my mouth, the old man cut me a warning look and gave his head a quick shake. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He’d stepped over the poor old man in his rush to get to the truck. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The boat moved steadily and when the first edge of the sun rose it was on the old man’s right shoulder. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man handed back the ball, and we all ran back to our game. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was free too, and the old man couldn't pass that up. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He ate slowly, listlessly, stealing occasional glances at the old man sitting in the corner. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Turn left into South Parade, and pull up on the right, could you, Allan,” said the old man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A small boy’s standing in the yard and won’t answer me,” said the old man, trembling. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one other passenger, an old man who took no notice of her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Change it?" the old man asked, surprised at the thought. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Although the old man talked for seven hours almost without ceasing, Colin's world felt eerily quiet until he finally gave in as they left the old man's house to go pick up Lindsey. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Haiyi looked down, slightly dizzy, and saw an old man sitting in the light of the moon, a large book in his lap. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Had he given some sign to the old man with them? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old man kept a giant gourd in the corner of his house for drinking water. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The old man laid the panga on the hot coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the old man grew even more courageous and said something else and that was a poem, too. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man rested a hand on Ruth May’s head and listened very closely to everything Mother said, nodding thoughtfully in a way that was quite complimentary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was still full of energy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone rushes to the cook fire, pushing and shoving to get next to the little boys, who hold wooden bowls that the old man ladles some kind of porridge into. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“The subway’s a disgrace,” he heard the old man say as the door started to close. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Nonsense!" the old man said, finally looking up. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Pong started to protest that he certainly hadn't taught his teacher that lesson, but the old man was off and walking down the road again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When I finish, the suspicious officer points to the old man, who is nodding away at the names I’ve read off. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Help!” the old man appealed to the crowd. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man liked to come with a soapbox and a Bible and take a stand in the middle of the crowd to preach. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The old man seemed seldom or never to go out of doors, and on the other hand to have almost no customers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man said he was lonely and seemed genuinely happy to share his space and his meals with someone else. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When once, through my treachery, it had been necessary to him to make a choice, the old man thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the old man, grinning, had scratched his head and then said stiffly, “Well, boy, if he’s an angel, he’s sure a murderin’ angel.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton kisses the old man on each cheek. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But the old man wanted to talk, and he asked the boy what book he was reading. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning for these six years the old man had waited for his son to bring in hot water to ease him of his morning coughing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Back at the counter the old man asked, “How much?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the dog wants to urinate, the old man won’t give him enough time and yanks at him, so that the spaniel leaves behind a trail of little drops. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the ward there was an old man whose head shook with palsy and who picked feebly at his eyebrows. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Given that, Jason decided maybe he shouldn’t complain about being an old man. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The old man beside her looked up, surprised, and she offered an apologetic look. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The old man climbed up onto a horse and ambled slowly, mumbling advice and recommendations, prayers of wisdom and enchanted formulas, to the ants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was clad in his bed robe, but around his throat was the chain collar of his order: A maester did not remove it even to sleep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the old man’s grave. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The old man on the bench, for example, made her cry. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Now and then, older and braver boys, inspired by the old man’s strangeness, would dare each other into an attempt to tease or torment him—but not for long. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon let the old man’s words fade to a faint buzz in the background. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He begged him to think again, and when the old man still said no, he begged him again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Okay, listen to me,” the old man said, his voice muffled behind his own swath of fabric. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Satisfied with their work, the people had a party the next day to celebrate the departure of the old man. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Moms pretty much thinks milk is what could make me and Diego grow up to be big and strong like our old man. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Eli Whitney had run his father into the ground, the old man coughing soot on his deathbed, and kept Ridgeway on the hunt. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Hands awkwardly raised, he circled warily around the old man, backed up to the ditch bank, and walked sideways along the bank to the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that word, the old man nodded all at once, one nod, like a sad old puppet on strings. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The old man appeared to have forgotten his prejudice against drinking a full liter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I asked the most interesting looking old man I had ever seen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The boy was asleep on a cot in the first room and the old man could see him clearly with the light that came in from the dying moon. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank stared in horror at the remains of the old man. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She nodded to Genie, then at the empty chair to the right of the old man for Genie to sit in. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Hannah went off to the kitchen, her old man’s slippers plopping down the stairs and over the hardwood floors. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

From the corner of his eye he could see his friend Fiona help the old man from the tub and tenderly pat his thin, naked body dry with an absorbant cloth. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the impossibly beautiful light of the sunrise, he looked like an old man. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

No one said a word as the old man continued. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man saw and let out a huff of exasperation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The old man was bleeding from a head wound. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the old man persisted in his attempt to strike up a conversation. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we stood there under gunpoint, an old man who had escaped from Mattru Jong was heard crossing a creaky wooden bridge leading to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Somehow, I always felt like we were turning our backs on the old man.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the fish kept on circling slowly and the old man was wet with sweat and tired deep into his bones two hours later. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came an old man, very fat, wearing a curious pointed cap by which she immediately knew that he was the Tisroc. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He retreated again, but the old man followed him—as if they were linked by an invisible thread. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I sat in Amélie’s favorite café for an hour waiting for an old man whose name I don’t know to tell me, “L’ange descend en dix minutes-” Ten minutes till the angel comes down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“The sack of coins. The old man tied the bag to his belt. He gave me his life vest.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mostly, I just think Mr. P is a lonely old man who used to be a lonely young man. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s fingers were trembling most terribly as they fumbled with the candy bar. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Facing the old man—in my mind at least—has made me realize something. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked down the road to the old man’s shack and all along the road, in the dark, barefoot men were moving, carrying the masts of their boats. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the School,” the old man said mildly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We haul it down the driveway and around the corner as the old man’s heckling laugh echoes behind us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Let that old man alone, you dirty cop,” a woman screamed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their wholehearted commitment to life. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While talking to the old man, I had taken my eyes off the street. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What she means is, you're a spitting image of your old man." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The headman had feared that the old man would say something like this. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The old man said that if you let me grow to adulthood your Order would be destroyed. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never really stopped to consider why the pieces from the old man’s toys fit so well into the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Mark knew his brain was still jumbled up from being hit during the crash, but surely the old man didn’t want to hike all that way before going back to the settlement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The old man reached the highway just as the sheriff was turning in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were eight of us,” the old man cried. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second I thought the old man was talking to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But 1 figured, what the hell, if I showed it to the old man he’d probably drop a nut or lose a good night’s sleep, so why bother?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All things are one,” the old man had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came, an old man, all those miles by cart from our village, to hold his grandson. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man only made him certain of something he had feared all along, something in the old stories. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the door that gives on the path across the fields to Roke Knoll an old man met him, waiting for him in the doorway. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They helped the old man to get up and took him over to the shade of the parapet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man knew if the Leopard and the Lion discovered that the girls had gone, they would surely eat him for supper instead. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want anyone really to take advantage of the old man. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, is that all I That won’t be very much longer then, considering that you’re so gullible and brave and that I am already such an old, old man.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up, old man! Come out of there!” the policeman in the bedroom said impatiently “Hurry, hurry, we haven’t got all day!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But to find him," the old man said, placing the stone back in Ku-Ang's hand, "you must bring the stone safely to the top of the mountain north of the village." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The old man had the look of Westerns about him, and the brown-skinned one must weigh twenty stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That old man could yak a mile a minute. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was an old man, but he was strong like some of them old West Indian brothers. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Son? Help an old man. What’s all that got to do with Radar?” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The old man looked at him for a moment. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Was he now going to spend the rest of his life behind the counter of this toy booth like the old man? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man paused, holding the rope and bottle of wine, then shrugged and began to dig around in his packs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What are you trying to tell me?” he barked so loudly I was sure the old man kept his head ducked out of courtesy. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm?”The old man looked around and saw me for the first time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-four years old—in their world, that made him practically an old man. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I saw an old man get trampled to death. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Do I, now?" the old man said to him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well that couldn’t have gone much worse,” the old man muttered as he rubbed at the shoulder of the arm the constable had twisted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old man was not at his post behind the counter. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And there had even been one of those old powder blue suitcases, a St. Anthony’s, which ought to make the old man happy. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Here, old man, better get something in that stomach of yours before you get sick.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is two feet longer than the skiff,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man waved Hugo’s box of matches in the air. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

They had sat in the green soft light without saying a word for a moment, and then Montag talked about the weather, and then the old man responded with a pale voice. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the world say,” continued the old man. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Grandma pulled the chair from the foot of the bed, and the old man sat down. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man shook his head, staring down at the luggage piled around him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thought- crime is a dreadful thing, old man,” he said sententiously. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“From now on, we’ll do things — ” “Don’t you see, John? I don’t need you anymore. You are an old man!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The old man, still carrying the lamp, was standing in front of a picture in a rosewood frame which hung on the other side of the fireplace, opposite the bed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you see the old man, babe, tell him Miss Reilly said, ‘Hello.’” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To hesitate when the old man needed to relieve himself was to invite disaster. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had long ceased to fear Grandpa; he was a sick old man and he knew nothing of what was happening in the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let them bring down the old man, and then we’ll take over.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any bravo who saw the prospect of some caprice-suiting as inviting enough to visit the Amazons himself, Carvajal solemnly warned, “would go a boy and return an old man.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Running the rag over a gauge I wondered how an apparently uneducated old man could gain such a responsible job. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something so right about the way the old man looked. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to hang in the air above the old man in the skiff. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s memory was nothing but a rubbish heap of details. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The old man pulled free of his sons, and stood straight and tall, then. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

His face had a tragic look to it, that old man look. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once she cured an old man who was very ill indeed. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A valiant gesture, old man, but I am not that great a fool. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Say, got a smoke for an old man?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He’d laid the same one on his old man countless times, despite knowing it would mean the belt or the replacement power cord for the dryer that hung purposefully in their trailer’s kitchen. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The crying girl on the trolley, the sad boy at the Carutherses’ mansion, the happy old man out back who cast the bluest light. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Stop fighting, old man!” the angry voice grunts. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The old man watched him with victorious merriment, sitting in his musty blue armchair like some satanic and hedonistic deity on a throne, a stolen U.S. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I thought about the old man I’d seen in my dream. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once at rest, it seemed the old man would be stone, would never move again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together the old man and the boy ran across the garden. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bodega knelt down beside the old man’s body, now wrapped in the tablecloth. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was blowing so hard that the drifting boats would not be going out and the boy had slept late and then come to the old man’s shack as he had come each morning. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man went on drilling, slapping the stone weights around and around with one gnarled hand while holding the handle of the spindle with the other. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A frail old man entered the room, the ghost of a smile on his withered face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

All too soon, though, I had to go back to Kakuma, and to the old man still waiting there to marry me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you keep stooping over like that, people are going to think you really are an old man,” he said, turning my name into a pun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He bit his lower lip until the blood flowed, carrying the old man a hundred yards, then halting to rest for five minutes, then starting off again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man chided the chipmunk lovingly as he set four places at the table, handing it a crust which bulged its cheeks, then ladling four very small portions of stew onto the plates. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange the way Laura was speaking before that old man walked by us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I said to the old man, in a trembling voice, “Is there any quick way out of this yard beside through the gate?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the slightest hesitation, Matt walked up to the chair and let the old man stroke his face with a paper-dry hand. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really, my dear boy, enough… I’m an old man... I don’t need to hear... I don’t want to hear...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The old man preferred to travel by road. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think so?” the old man asked the cloud of smoke. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get moving, you ape,” the old man shouted. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh God, he’s dead,” she sobbed, leaning over the body of the old man who had filled her childhood with stories and protected her clandestine love affair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you doing all this?” mumbled the owner of the shack, a grey-haired old man in a threadbare coat, with deformed legs and a bent back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how treacherous El Patron had been, Matt loved the old man. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the old man was in bed in this room. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter, still holding him upright, removes the cap and holds it to the old man’s lips. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“If it doesn’t work, old man,” growled Basta before he closed the door behind him, “I will decorate your face to match Dustfinger’s.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Genie flat-out stared, but when Grandpop closed the fridge, a big jug of tea in his hand, Genie turned away fast, just in case the old man could somehow see him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Ah, well, it’s the winds, old man,” White Deer said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Eddard Stark sat upon a rock beside the deep black pool in the godswood, the pale roots of the heart tree twisting around him like an old man’s gnarled arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And for a few bars the pure sweet tone of the horn and the old man's husky baritone sang a duet in the hot heavy silence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the old man by the blazer and shoved him against the wall. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“He’ll be quite useful. And all Minos asked in return was your head, old man.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The old man held up his right thumb, which Ranofer saw with a shock was hacked off at the first knuckle. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Filled suddenly with love for this old man, he knelt on one knee, and took his hand and kissed it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped head first into the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blues king, not a sickly old man, barely making it. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The old man wanted Charlie’s favorite new horse, a thoroughbred named Thunder, run out to the green marker. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He remembered nothing like it save one afternoon a year ago when he had met an old man in the park and they had talked... Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bears,” said the old man, “ha! I could write a treatise on them! That’s why they shut me away, you know.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The boy struggled against the old man, but it was no use. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man wiped the blade of his knife and laid down the oar. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning the old man showed me how to split and stack firewood, and for several hours we just worked in silence out behind his house. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the old man noticed it, too, because he opened a window and pointed to a nearby pasture. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And Gitano was an old man, until you got to the dull dark eyes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a fine place of my son’s, sir,” cried the old man, while I nodded as hard as I possibly could. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an old man, also carrying a rifle but way down at his side, pointing to the ground. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The old man had a sour smell, as if he had not washed in a long time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

You could even say the old man was responsible for the Keepers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling, he gained the saddle of his horse and whipped his horse along, thanking the old man, who rode with him now until they were out of sight and hearing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the next circle he was still too far away but he was higher out of water and the old man was sure that by gaining some more line he could have him alongside. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then an old man stuck his head out of the garage, ran up behind the vendor, and struck him across the back with a long fork. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anna, if the boy doesn’t want to . . .” started the old man. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man woke and staggered to the stove to warm his peppered coconut oil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the old man looked at each other, but before either could say a word, Sister Fenella called, “Mr. Taphouse! Come quickly! Please come and help!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m the king of Salem,” the old man had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Pong thought perhaps the old man was fooling them all and would live for years and years longer. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Between my son and my doctor, I will probably live to be a very old man.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was so funny to hear my wife called “Madam Mina” by this kindly, strong-faced old man. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And into his mind burst the vision of an emaciated old man lying in rags upon a stone floor, screaming, a horrible, drawn-out scream, a scream of unendurable agony.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Catelyn would gladly have spitted the querulous old man and roasted him over a fire, but she had only till evenfall to open the bridge. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Perry noticed them first — hitchhikers, a boy and an old man, both carrying homemade knapsacks, and despite the blowy weather, a gritty and bitter Texas wind, wearing only overalls and a thin denim shirt. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his final years, the old man, a teacher of mathematics in our elementary schools, had kept assiduous track of Bibi’s illness in hopes of determining some logic to her condition. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Listen. Easy now,” said the old man gently. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he raised his head off the ground, trembling with the effort, and breathed into my ear: “Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave. September third, 1940.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Before Hugo could run, the old man grabbed his arm. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He looked less like an old man standing on a boat and more like a stallion ready to gallop. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The old man realized what I was doing, softened his manner, and finally stamped his document and said quietly, “Welcome to the Sudan.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Phew! I need fresh air after that,” said the old man, seating himself by the open dining-room window. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the old man fell silent, Capricorn carefully pulled the sleeve of his jacket down over his wrist and brushed a speck of fluff off his arm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With that, the old man turned away and disappeared into the bushes. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo heard the jingle of keys and the tin sound of a footlocker opening; the lock snapped shut and the old man came back and sat down; the hair was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were strange shoulders, still powerful although very old, and the neck was still strong too and the creases did not show so much when the old man was asleep and his head fallen forward. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was the location of the brain and the old man hit it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man, finished before the rest, goes out to bring in wood. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still hung to the fish with his jaws hooked and the old man stabbed him in his left eye. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must be awfully ashamed of your old man,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man’s left hand was uncramped. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked at her incredulously, shaking his head very firmly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old man—he was like Baba Haji’s age—leaned down and said, “Listen. If you ever see those gypsies walking toward the town, you run back and shout, ‘The gypsies are coming! Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m not trying to pass myself off as anything,” the old man snapped. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The other day old man Ku’oosh came to the house. He told your grandma what some of the old men are thinking. They think you better get help pretty soon.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be a sissy, now,” the old man said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like it was his old man’s or somebody’s who he’d beaten up before. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The old man Daedalus was hunched over a worktable, wrestling with some kind of navigational instrument, like a huge compass. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We found an old man lying in the woods one morning, near one of the jeep trails not so far from here, and he was dead. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the precinct the old man sat on a bench with the others, mostly shoplifters, who composed the late afternoon haul. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t look like an old man,” he teased, turning my name into a pun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes it is. Indeed,” the old man replied. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But before the boy could say anything, the old man leaned over, picked up a stick, and began to write in the sand of the plaza. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be stupid. I’m seventeen, you idiot. Of course I don’t get tired of parties. You know what, you’re an old man trapped in the body of a seventeen-year-old guy.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Go on,” said the old man as he held out the cloth to the prisoner, “take it. 'You’11 need every last bit of warmth down here.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was such a quick motion for such an old man that it startled Pong, and he dropped the precious pork skewers onto the dusty floor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had spoken again with Medwyn, but the old man could give him no assurance. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“And here I was hoping you might be the one who halfway liked the old man. I mean, if you ever joined this old family.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The old man coughed a few times as he entered. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man presses a button, and the band-saw blade starts running. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of an old man frowned down out of an old round frame. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes in the old man's stooped shoulders, the pain behind his eyes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a wide smile, and she was surprised again, for it was Yishan’s grin on the old man’s face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You see that? That old man don’t care neither.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back to Deep Water, where life would become again an empty trailer, an old man’s declining will to go on, a crazy fool believing in the mysteries of a beat-up vinyl suitcase, and me. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You have any luck with the old man?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was too angry to see it at all, and Will saw it only for a moment before it retreated again up the old man’s sleeve, but it made his eyes widen with shock. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man shook his head, wearing, for a moment, the same touchy, meditating frown of the fretful and disapproving old woman. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The old man could see the slight bulge in the water that the big dolphin raised as they followed the escaping fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived at the place where he had found the stone, he saw an old man sitting as if waiting for him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

While they try to predict what dishes will be served, I keep seeing the old man’s head being blown off. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man had breathed noisily, and dribbled a little, and never woken. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

One cloud looked like a two-humped camel, and another looked like an old man whose long, white beard nearly reached the ground. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook his head suddenly, violendy, and remembered the old man again, coming bareheaded along the hill, stemming the retreat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man with a sun-weathered straw hat and faded overalls unbent himself from his chores in the garden to nod our way as we walked up to him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The oldest daughter motioned to the third daughter, who tiptoed into the circle the women had made around the old man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The old man performed his usual adjustment of spectacles and peered at the paper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nothing more than a deluded old man and a silly little girl. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And that’s how the old man found out what the kid was doing with his mornings. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, sport. Inmates are allowed only one short visit per day, and we’re already bending the rules for this TV thing. Maybe tomorrow you can see your old man. But call first, okay?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There he sat on a chair in the shade, his eyes on an old man wearing a sweater who was watering a peach tree. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“The old man watering his lawn the night my grandfather died. That was you, too.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The old man cleared his throat and played with his cards. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An echo,” said Dumbledore, “which retained Cedric’s appearance and character. I am guessing other such forms appeared . . . less recent victims of Voldemort’s wand. “An old man,” Harry said, his throat still constricted. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It sounds funny,” I said, “but that poor old man, he reminds me of ... I mean, there’s this girl I used to know. I took her to the movies once. My first date.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel I’m just definitely the most suspicious character on the train. You’ve only got to find a will in which the old man left me all his money, and that’ll just about fix things.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the old man saw him coming he knew that this was a shark that had no fear at all and would do exactly what he wished. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man wiped off the windshield of the small truck. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiles at the old man and says, “You can come on back, Mr. Benson.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Come on, kid. Let’s see what the old man has to say about this.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m takin’ those to a old man who lives over on the other side of the cemetery.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“One at a time!” he grunted at the old man. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With the passing of the flame out of him he was suddenly cold with an age and he was an old man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The old man opened the gourd for the last time. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man glanced down at the paper a moment, then nodded. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s irrigating his old man’s beanfield on the western side of the highway.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was a famous ingcibi, a circumcision expert, from Gcalekaland, who would use his assegai to change us from boys to men with a single blow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will not be so beautiful,” the old man said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Light shines on old man soldering bottom of ash can. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the captives stood at gunpoint watching as the rebels proceeded to interrogate the old man. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was an old man in the front yard, very old and thin and weak; he hobbled forward, glaring with feeble, toothless rage. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, that thing with the old man was pretty unexpected. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, even the halting noises did not make the old man look up. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I make to follow her but the old man stops me with a hard look. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I arst you civil enough, didn’t I?” said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The old man was somewhere close by, but Will couldn’t see what he was doing, and meanwhile Lyra was talking to him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Flailing his arms and running straight at us,” Dad said, “my old man!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The flies settled all over the old man’s skin and began swelling up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scoundrel! Thief! Blackguard! Rogue!” shouted the old man, and he shook so violently that Lyra was afraid he’d have a fit. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He felt only the light touch of the old man’s hands on his back. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I never have felt that I would live to become an old man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the Bible in the old man's hands. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man and the girl argued some more, and finally she closed her book and ran off. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man’s eyes were dancing, as if he couldn’t decide whether laughing would cost him his customer or not. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, within moments the old man had crossed his arms in front of him and closed his eyes. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

After a few blocks, I bought a piragua from the old man dressed like a sailor who walked around the neighborhood pushing his piragua cart, which had fake sails. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The old man raised his eyes and looked at the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“My ma died when I was born, and being my old man was a government packer in the mountains, and no cows around most of the time, why he just gave me mostly mare’s milk.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am a hundred and seven years old,” the old man reminded him suavely. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I said, where’s your bloody wife, old man?” the question was repeated. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the ring and held it up to the old man’s face. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Koffi stooped to help, but the old man held up a hand, wary. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to tell me that you have been permitting some old man to paw all over you?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached a trapdoor at the top of the steps, and the old man gave it a firm push with his shoulder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“What do you do at this hour?” the old man asked. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A bolt slid like a rifle and an old man opened up. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

For a long while the old man squinted down at the tablecloth. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were now two boys before the ingcibi reached me, and my mind must have gone blank because before I knew it, the old man was kneeling in front of me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, there was a general by the name of Sigel at Pea Ridge,” Jethro said, forgetting his anger a little in his interest in instructing the old man. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know? Okay, I’ll tell you. He’s paying protection money. Your old man likes to keep the fuzz around because he’s scared of us black folks.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There is only a little rice left in the basket,” said the old man, seating himself at the table in the middle room and stirring with his chopsticks the thick yellow gruel. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The old man roared with contemptuous merriment at Nately’s look of embarrassed surprise. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the old man called everybody in the village to the door of his hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The old man was still examining him closely. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man pointed to a baker standing in his shop window at one corner of the plaza. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand was trembling, he had never enjoyed threatening anyone with a knife, but the old man let go. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That was on my list of things to wish on thanks to Fulton Banner, a crazy old man who lived next door to us in Raleigh. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The old man writes an invoice, tears the yellow copy from the white-and-pink ones. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He takes the last tremulous step and he’s suddenly clasping forearms with the old man who keeps saving his life. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The old man stands beneath the projection screen and whisks the tip of a billiards cue through the grids. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Together the old man and the boy sat on the grass and shared the heart of the watermelon. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children were enveloped by the soft folds of the old man’s cape, and together they all headed home. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It struck me as very sad, this old man all alone on the road with no one to talk to but his donkeys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old man waited until the broth had cooled before he took a sip, long enough to be sure his guardsman had suffered no ill effects. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old man did not speak or make a sign. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was a very old man when I knew him, but as a young lieutenant just out of military academy he had been assigned to General Miles and he served in the Chief Joseph campaign. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man stepped quickly inside and slammed the door behind him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“From time to time you may use the water gourd to watch your husband and your brother,” the old man said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man sat on a stool by the front door with a red rubber fly swatter in his right hand, watching them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

On New Year’s mornings, the old man let me look in his water gourd to see my family. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was yellow weed on the line but the old man knew that only made an added drag and he was pleased. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man finished closing up and double-checked the lock on his booth. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man’s face was shining with excitement as he watched every move that Mr. Wonka made. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” Mancuso said weakly, leading the weeping old man away. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Look, Aragorn! Did I not warn you? There is the old man. All in dirty grey rags: that is why I could not see him at first.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And you could never be sure, for at home an old man employed as a janitor at the Water Works was the only one who knew the location of all of the water mains. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or even better, I wish that it was Daddy sitting next to me instead of the old man who keeps bumping me with his arm. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he and Mama danced but it just sounded to me like an old man crying about something he couldn’t have. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

An old man with gap teeth is on his front lawn, shouting into the microphone: “Where would I go? This my home. If go to the Superdome, who’s going to protect my house?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

In a room where the fire burned low and orange on the hearth they were helpless while an old man strangled with pneumonia. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

George said, “Slim, will we get canned now? We need the stake. Will Curley’s old man can us now?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It could be amazing, you know,” he replied, and there was that sparkle in the old man’s eye that was as rare as a comet but just as dazzling. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

After another long silence, Milton said, “You know how many of these places your old man owns right now?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The old man's voice was barely audible now. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many shouted at once at the old man. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The old man shouted challenges at the pagan spirit world. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the old man ended his story they reached the simple hut where he lived and there Aeneas spent the night on a couch of leaves with a bear’s skin to cover him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man near us was slowly picking cucumbers, like nothing had happened. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man has to throw out his hat and his pipe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The old man glared at him, made a shooing motion with his hand, and turned back to work. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the old man and he looked at the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Before the old man could answer, if he was going to, a couple of ladies breezed in the doorway. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard people try for their talent that were really good. Early this term an old man sang a song about... about this woman whose husband had gone off to war.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old man’s body relaxed and he got on his hands and knees, laboring heavily to breathe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In my dreams the old man on the mall bench raised a wobbling head and croaked, “How dare you forgive me.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be ninety-four in August. I was an old man when your father came to work for me, and that was many years ago.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s take the old man who lived on the second floor right underneath the room where the murder took place. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the room. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the old man, Nasser, had no moral qualms about their divorce of convenience and agreed to help. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A bald old man looks up from his earthenware plate and laughs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How old are you?” the old man asked the bird. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man fingered it into his hat and gave the hat to Belter. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the old man’s face suddenly contorted with anguish. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the throne now sat Notus—a bronze-skinned old man in a fiery Greek chiton, his head crowned with a wreath of withered, smoking barley. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The old man now looked directly into Pong's eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Leave that boy alone, Brooke,” Grandma said, slapping the old man on the shoulder, setting a plate full of breakfast food in front of him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The old man just looked at him for a while with a mixture of puzzlement and recognition, as though the fish he had landed might be the same one he had thrown away long before. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the strange old man was there, the house was no longer empty, and the whole island was trying to unravel the mystery. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

First she drew a silhouette of the old man and then his wife with her basket on her head, perched over him like a ballerina, unaware of her load. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The old man chucked a beer can into the fire. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The bird had flown up when the line jerked and the old man had not even seen him go. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rose okay, is she?” the old man asks. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But then the old man would just stand there and rattle it off from memory with a few extra images of nature thrown in for free. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clyde had a certain paternal quality that Ignatius liked; the old man, the scarred and wizened mogul of the frankfurter, would be a welcome new character in the Journal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy jeweled chain around the old man's neck chinked softly as he shifted in his seat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

El Patrons piggyback heart performed valiantly, but it was clear the old man had passed a kind of milestone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly hobbit-like once more, he stood up and looked the old man in the eyes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He nodded to the old man because he knew this place. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The men looked quickly at the old man. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I think it's remarkable," I said, thinking, I don't like this old man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man behind the counter scrambled us some eggs. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bleeding man turned toward the direction of the scream and looked at the colored girl long enough for Macon to pull out his knife and bring it down on the old man’s back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid the cloth on the floor and rolled the old man in it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

All his life he had taken orders and he knew the necessity for command and the old man in front of him was the finest commander he had ever known. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man sat turning his cane between his hands and staring down in the darkness at his feet. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless our principal has turned into a jolly old man, I have the wrong speech!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The old man suddenly became a little more attractive. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between you and me, old man, I’m glad they got me before it went any further. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pike must be a mean old man with no imagination. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The old man’s shrill cackle sounded as he tugged his donkey to its feet. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Gypsies are experts at getting people to do that,” sighed the old man. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of what the old man was saying made much sense to the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy took the tin and handed it to the old man. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

After the old man regained his balance he reached inside his blazer and took out a cellular phone. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The old man’s chin hit against the wheel, the blow almost knocking him out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the old man never confronted me about it, there was one occasion when he came close to forcing the whole thing out into the open. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped at the guard gate to announce ourselves, but the old man in the booth was snoring and the gate was open, as was often the case, so we just drove in. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He had a pair of beautiful black eyes that looked out at the world with an old man’s gaze. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was arranging books in the mystery section of the store when the old man stormed up to him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now, though, because of Matt’s incautious remark, the old man was roaming around the house by himself. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what have you been up to, Lizzie?” the old man said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither the woman nor the old man was at all impressed by the fact that he was a shepherd. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years ahead, he would think of the old man in the dark room far more often and with far greater affection than he thought of his parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

William and Jacob paused, their spoons aloft, and looked uncertainly at the old man. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A young couple sat on the bench where he had talked with the old man, and they kissed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leg. Bad,” I say loud and clear, because I now see him for who he is—the old man at the crossroads with his hat and cane and riddles come to open doors for me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Hang on to me,” I yelled to the old man. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the block, an old man comes out of his house. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“What do you want to do?” the old man asked. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man resented us, or we made him nervous, or maybe he was as sick as he looked. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man went back into his hut but soon came out again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Ah. That was some lunch, wasn’t it, old man?” he said around the cigar clamped in his teeth, holding the glasses to the light to inspect them for dust. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The phone kept ringing, relatives from the old country calling with congratulations for the old man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Longstreet stopped, turned to look at him, turned slowly, like an old man, looked at him with a strange face, a look tight and old that Armistead had never seen. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man at this point was unable to speak. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“That really is an amazing story, old man,” he said in a quiet voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then, before the old man could ask any questions, she sprinted back over to where her mama stood waiting. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The old man got to his feet, and thrust out his yellow-gloved right hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“You let my daughter escape, old man. You drove my wife to madness. You killed my monster and made me the laughingstock of the Mediterranean. You will never escape me!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was bad to see the indomitable old man weak and hatless in the early morning, something soft in his eyes, pain in his face, the right hand rubbing the pain in the arm. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is happy to know that he can still score a goal at his age, old man like him!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess the old man came out to greet his public again.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But throughout the day Hugo stole glances at the old man, who continued to do amazing things with the cards. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The shark came in a rush and the old man hit him as he shut his jaws. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re crazy, old man,” Cole said, twisting free of Edwin’s grip. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Finally the old man reached up, plucked a peach from the tree, and handed it to one of the people in the crowd. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The old man stood frozen in the doorway. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, the old man shuffling through the garden did not look the least bit dangerous. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The old man told us to go back to other parts of the yard, but there was no more real work done that afternoon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Shadowfax saw Gandalf, he checked his pace and whinnied loudly; then trotting gently forward he stooped his proud head and nuzzled his great nostrils against the old man’s neck. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Please no, I can explain,” cried the old man. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hugo noticed that the old man’s face was red. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man sat very upright, his eyes fixed on the horizon. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A grizzled old colored man stirs a big pot of something over a fire, and a couple of small, dark-skinned boys run to and fro as the old man barks out orders. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He seizes an old man sitting near us, and holds the sword to his throat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In a panic, Genie pushed past the old man and headed outside to tell the only person he thought could help. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Come along home, Anna, there’s nothing we can do,” said the old man. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last morning he would have to prepare food for the old man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, sure. Whatever you want . . .” Bernabe backed up, hesitating momentarily at the door of his truck, disturbed by the old man who was grinning absurdly in his direction. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that I began to learn what a stubborn old man he could be. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lecture began when an old man with small eyes and a sharp nose shuttered the windows. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He looked stonily at the menacing old man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man warmed his hands before the fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The girl didn’t know, the old man was out of the picture—everything was set up perfectly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It would be a grand thing for one of those girls, wouldn’t it? Sallie says they are very intimate now, and the old man quite dotes on them.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man heard the fight between the boy and his father a few hours earlier. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman slumped over the crate and caught his breath, barely able to nod to the old man’s thank yous. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked uneasily from George to Lennie, and then back. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked up the road together to the old man’s shack and went in through its open door. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old man in front of the yard smoking a badly carved wooden pipe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The old man shot in District 11 for whistling. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their only response was still the shaking of heads, but an old man said something in their local language, and the boy with polio nodded and gestured for me to follow him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She threw her arms around his neck and kissed his dry, old man’s cheek. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an old man with a long, gray beard who wore a black coat and was constantly smoking cigarettes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The old man drank the last of his coffee and set the bowl before him and leaned toward the heat with his hands out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Well, there were these three children to be fed—the children and the old man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She was alone, as was the old man in front who cupped his face in his hands while he prayed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had been so afraid the Angel of Death would take me, they’d given me the name Alter to confuse him into thinking I was an old man. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wore steel-rimmed glasses that gave his face a pinched, old man’s look. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The old man wrote her name with a shiver of fear. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He remembered what the old man had said about offering something you didn’t even have yet. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man struggled to catch up, gliding clumsily after his son. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I turn, walking away, stunned that Arden Jones is an old man. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Alec was cursing and grunting, and at one point Mark started to slip off the edge and the old man pulled him back up, only to resume his cursing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

With Bit leading the way, the Low Cuts beelined up her obstacle course of a driveway and rang the doorbell, which chimed a melodic yawn, like an old man just waking up. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Elinor had always thought more of books than their authors, and she looked at the old man without much goodwill as Flatnose led him past their cage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Setting the cotton has got me worried, because the old man says if it ain’t done right, the boat will still leak, even with new planks. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Knew an old man back in Illinois who lost his toes to frostbite, walked like he had a stump for a foot. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the picture home at night and showed it to the old man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Go away, old man,” the fat vendor said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later, an old man and a young boy come by with a large wooden cart. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘They made me an old man before my time,’ he’d say to me many years later. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the birds descended on the fields and began to eat the grain, four of the most important men from the village ran off to find the old man. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When the headman arrived at the bush in which the old man lived, he was saddened to see him in such a state. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The old man has brought a canvas tool bag that holds caulking irons and a big wooden mallet, and a coil of fluffy white cotton. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They all nodded, except for one old man who had nodded off. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Perched on the steps, an old-fashioned radio played conjunto music, and on the shaded porch, sitting in a rocking chair, a skinny old man gazed at the horizon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Your daughter and I are going to Tres Marias to rescue the old man.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the old man only shrugged his shoulders, at a loss. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And then he’d ask Nailer if he was ever going to be as tough as his old man. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the old man was down from the Wall, he must have come by way of Winterfell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He buried his face in his hands, which were as bony as an old man’s. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he dove suddenly and the old man saw flying fish spurt out of the water and sail desperately over the surface. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, some people began to talk about how the old man must still have powers to work magic. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The old man stopped and looked at him curiously. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He did not wish his older brother to see him, nor did he wish to be there when the old man was laid on the floor and the bed taken from under him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes!—there is a great difference. But Mr. Weston is almost an old man. Mr. Weston must be between forty and fifty.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever known your old man to get himself in a situation he couldn’t handle?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he was a dirty old man then, how dirty is he now? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It might not have seemed like it, but he took the old man’s words to heart. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

No, Matt realized, the old man meant him to have a higher destiny. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thought you said the old man was coming,” the farmer said as he tied down the valise. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slunk around the edge of the building until I could see what was written on the side of the old man’s wagon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As she lifted her arm to look at it in the moonlight, she saw the old man was walking up the mountain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The dolphin was cold and a leprous gray-white now in the starlight and the old man skinned one side of him while he held his right foot on the fish’s head. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After each new sentence the old man would nod his head and say “Ah” or “Oh” or “Mmm” in a serious voice. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it looked as if the old man wasn’t going to answer at all, but at last his craggy face cracked enough to allow the escape of two small words, “I see.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make no mistake, my beloved prince,” the old man was yelling. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not just Clara, but the gruff old man with the funny mustache, and the sad-eyed boy with the bleeding back, too. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The old man was sitting on an upended box; on one side of his head, the hair was quite short; on the other, still shaggy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man slept day and night, and ate what was given him and there was still strength in him to creep about the dooryard at noon when the sun was warm. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He paid the old man and left, opening the screen door only enough to squeeze out and closing it quickly so that no flies got in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a bad old man,” she told him, and shook a finger at him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Frank starts that old man snore of his—because he always goes to sleep the instant the TV goes off. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The old man took a necklace from under his shirt and looked at it, the pendant was a compass, he said, “Oskar is my friend. I have to tell him.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, Hugo saw Isabelle over the old man’s shoulder as she rose up from behind the counter. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Meggie still had a feeling that the old man was enjoying himself enormously. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Perdix,” the old man said, though his tone sounded cold. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hills,” says the old man to no one in particular. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After making their request, the old man said, “Of course you can stay here. Come on in.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The old man reverently stroked the painted wood underneath the blanket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was still saying that while he felt himself being propelled rapidly away, heard the old man’s thin furious voice dying away behind him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been too weak to undertake this journey until now,” explained the old man. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erin’s watching the Sixers game with Dad, and Pop’s shirt is all wet, which lets me know that she really threw a snowball at the old man. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it wasn’t cold, it seemed as if the kid ought to be covered, so the old man took his winter work jacket off the hook and laid that over him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the old man was utterly incompetent with regards to the rudiments of writing and speaking, the teacher was never less than polite and indulgent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I knocked, and an old man, a stranger with a few strands of white and rumpled hair, peered blearily into the sunlight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sadness is my shame, the old man thought, another mark of my failure. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“God, isn't it funny?” said the old man. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man then ran toward the drawings and grabbed handfuls of them, tearing them apart. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Like the old man said, skills are valuable. The larger ships will have hospital wards. They’ll need you. Present yourself for work, but tell them you want to bring your patients with you.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe a few words passed between him and the old man. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

At Bilbo’s front door the old man began to unload: there were great bundles of fireworks of all sorts and shapes, each labelled with a large red G and the elf-rune. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ferris turned down a rutted dirt road, made even bumpier by the roots that crisscrossed it like the veins on an old man’s hands. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The trunk was filled, the back seat seemed a glittering dump heap; unnoticed, unmentioned by even his grandson, the ailing old man was all but hidden under the shifting, dangerously chiming cargo. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, get up, ye layabouts!" the old man snaps. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The servants lifted their sticks, But instead of cowering, the old man stood calmly. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Instead we found a tired old man and a cooperative soldier all wrapped up in one Indian. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When he came close enough to speak, he raised the lantern and held it to show his face: an old man with a broad, lined face, and eyes nearly lost in a thousand wrinkles. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But staring into the eyes of the old man who’d helped raise him and taught him everything he knew, he found what he had to say nearly impossible. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Tam’s my name!” the old man more or less shouts. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He would have been better off staying gone,” the old man said, pointing to the car with his chin. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The old man’s hands fumbled setting up the chess pieces. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He moved up behind Fenoglio, smiled at her, and ran a finger across the old man’s throat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He motioned to the Lion, and together they tugged and tugged until the old man came flying out. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

‘Whoa! Whoa! steady there!’ cried the old man, holding up one hand, and they stopped short, as if they had been struck stiff. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The old man nods his head and says, “Yes, sonny. We are all going to cut cane in Dominicanie.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his keen sense of the ship, the old man was probably listening to every word they said. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The old man was paralyzed with bewilderment, recognizing how worn out he was, when he tried to summon up his fury and his hatred and was unable to find them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as the old man tucked his beard out of the way and adjusted himself in his seat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old man was sweating now but from something else besides the sun. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If such a man is here at the oasis, he must be the very powerful one,” said the old man after thinking for a few moments. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then an old man came out of the meadhall, went to the young king, just clear of the bear, and spoke to him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about an old man on his own?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The old man waited tranquilly, watching him with a discerning smile that was both scornful and sympathetic. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Trotter had raised her voice as she always did speaking to the old man. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The old man hobbled a step or two nearer, and then he put a hand into the pocket of his jacket and took out a small white paper bag. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We must return to our valley, the old man who led the farmers spoke. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man continued, “In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man with a wooden leg thumped back and forth across the road, clutching his temples and announcing to everyone who passed, “They shot my cow.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then the old man took a deep breath, and suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, an explosion seemed to take place inside him. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old man reaches for my hand and I withdraw it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Joe would break the ice in all the puddles while his old man, smoking a cigarette, patiently waited. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought the leaves to the old man and old woman, and they ate them for immortality. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, God,” he mumbled, “and now that man is dead. That old man. He was afraid of me too. Remember how he ran away from me? But I never did anything to him! I swear!” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Sacrilege!” the old man yelped, banging his staff on the floor a few more times. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The old man didn’t just shuffle the deck, he fanned it and flipped it and made the cards jump up into an arching bridge, shooting them in rapid succession from one hand to the other. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

But this was an old man, one whom I had never seen before. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hut stood in a hollow of the dunes, and the old man and woman lived there alone in the utter desolation of the empty sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then he fell into the water with a crash that sent spray over the old man and over all of the skiff. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man came slowly into the room. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then there was a mad rush against the old man and he fell to the floor, people leaping on top of him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The old man ... no one would ever think him comely. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d tell you it was just an old man dying an old man’s death. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

‘It is like the sound an old man is making when he is dying slowly.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the old man, by the time he got home to his wife, he knew it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

"You are very kind," the old man said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Toby was right about him—he was a grumpy old man. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Not long ago in a large university town in California, on a street called Orchard Avenue, a strange old man ran a dusty shabby store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They belong to an old man with a white beard, blinking into the light. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Put your hands up, old man,” I tell him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex watched in surprise as tears began to roll down the old man’s face. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You did that yourself, Your Majesty,” the old man croaked. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The old man was almost as unusual as the strange things behind the dusty glass. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every night, as the old man left for his room at the Y, he would grouse, “You oughta go to school.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Images of the moon and the rocket and the explorers shimmered across the old man’s face and onto the sea of his beautiful drawings, tacked to the wall behind him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man shrugged and put on a childish smile. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can still climb. I was only thinking of you, old man.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The beds inside are for the old man.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this rendition, the god of death is sculpted to look like a cunning old man, his hippo familiar by his side. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

According to Kaz, the old man’s exact words had been, “Take all that rope and hang yourself.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the old man looked at Matt, he saw himself: young, strong, and sound of mind. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man opened still another lid cut in the rear of the hot dog. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to wait awhile, but the old man comes in at about 2:25. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I handed the old man a hundred thousand Afghanis, or the equivalent of about three dollars. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m even eyeing the old man in the red plaid shirt at the counter with suspicion. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Sunk in his armchair like an old man at the end of his days, they saw him shed silent tears. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were few leaves left on the bush, as the old man had been forced to eat leaves to deal with the great hunger which plagued him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

So, he asked if the old man’s blessing was still with him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the old man’s hand and said in a broken voice:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Once in a tournament he came up against a forty-five-year- old man with a lot of experience. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s apartment is directly beneath it and exactly the same. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the old man peered and said, “It seems a beast well castrated.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

‘Did I not say that I wished to speak to you?’ said the old man. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You can tell me,” said the old man. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A repeating pattern showing the famous trio of drummer boy, fife player, and lame old man. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Major de Coverley was a splendid, awe-inspiring, grave old man with a massive leonine head and an angry shock of wild white hair that raged like a blizzard around his stem, patriarchal face. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Only there’s nothing like that where this old man is pointing, just a wood box that’s old and got a big brass record in it with holes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to stand was Mentor, comrade in arms of the prince Odysseus, an old man now. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was hovering about the table, pleased as a child might be pleased with the bright colors. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Reviving, I found myself in a comer; the old man was busy dabbing my forehead with a wet, dirty sponge. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brinker asked him if it shouldn’t be called “unrolling stock” now, and the old man looked back at him with bleary dislike and didn’t reply. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor and the old man were arguing again by the time I got close enough to hear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old man is shaking his head at me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told the old man my story while he rubbed his beard. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled much worse in here than in the real crazy old man upstairs’s flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Lyra saw the old man standing doubtfully in the doorway, and behind him, the corner of a large wooden box. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Lannister lord was strong- looking for an old man, with stiff golden whiskers and a bald head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

An old man he was, past sixty, yet he still sat straight and tall in the high saddle, and his voice was strong enough to carry to every comer of the field. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I told Marie all about the old man and she laughed. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

A very old man, bent but active, with white mustaches that bristled forward like those of a prawn, pushed open the swing door and went in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She gave him a silver for his trouble and sent him on his way before she turned back to the old man with the white beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t it look like Tom?” asked the old man. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew only the rain and the old man who toiled to keep pace with me; and I knew our goal. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A minute later I heard the old man’s footsteps and he knocked on my door. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The shadowy figure of the old man appeared in the doorway, holding his unbuttoned garments about him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A policeman summoned the old man up to the desk in the center of the room where a sergeant was seated. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether it had been the gruff voice of an old man or the scared voice of a girl. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The place was deserted—no people, no animals—and the only confirmed kill was an old man who lay face-up near a pigpen at the center of the village. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the tune, I have found the whistler, a wizened old man in a faded red shirt and overalls. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Had to pay a fortune for this oak,” the old man grumbled. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were going to have a good time in her house for the old man's seventieth, if it killed her! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A guy who talks like that to an old man oughta really get stepped on y’know. 3RD JUROR: Get your hands off me! 6TH JUROR: YOU oughta have some respect, mister. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And an old man, and a young girl. Probably the kid’s sister. I don’t know.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The old man peers up at me through thick lenses. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old man had grown noticeably more cheerful after receiving the four dollars. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

One day, when she was at the market, she saw an old man selling a painting of a palatial estate. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Everything seemed unreal to him—the sudden appearance of Celia, the old man, the furious battle between his two enemies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything seemed unreal: the dark road, the starry sky, and the old man and woman who guided his steps. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, the old man says shutting the lid, this ain’t for sale. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a peaceful, kind, remote old man. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, again, he saw himself in a green park talking to an old man, a very old man, and the wind from the park was cold, too. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man now, who acquired things and used people to acquire more things. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake laid a hand on the old man’s arm, quieting him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s an old man coming into the courtyard!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"I think I made a mistake," whispered the old man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t fear you,” the old man groaned. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

What in the world happened to the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

James Henry Trotter stood there clutching the bag and staring at the old man. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

So accompanied the old man passed the guards and came into the presence of the man who had killed and maltreated his son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man made no further sign that he saw them or heard them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Donatelli showed tickets to a sleepy old man at the door, and led them through a dark corridor into a large, bare room filled with older men, half-naked boys, and cigar smoke. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He disliked getting the old man up: Lee had not been well. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will stay with him,” the old man said to her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They were nearly as long as the fingers of the old man and they had razor-sharp cutting edges on both sides. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t your old man hear that slavery was abolished?” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not even playing, if we’d have had a white old man me and Diego’s lives would be totally different from how they are now. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“There is no need to know my name. Just refer to me as the old man who got left behind when you get to the next village.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The old man’s knees failed him, his heart grew faint, recalling all that Odysseus calmly told. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man who learned to read has touched the hearts of people who read about him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they returned to the village, the old man went to a number of secret places which he knew and collected roots and other substances that he would need for his work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Coraline walked up the stairs outside the building to the topmost flat, where, in her world, the crazy old man upstairs lived. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Longstreet saw men beginning to take off their hats in the old man’s presence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will watch over her,” said the old man, putting his arm around the young mother. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Maniac finally forced himself from the shower, he found the old man waiting with clothes. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man broke into a huge grin. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The old man was too quick for him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You put so much stock in winning wars,” the grubby iniquitous old man scoffed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Or in the middle of a conversation he would suddenly bring himself up short and say: “Richard, old man, why don’t you keep any pictures of your folks around?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The woman hastened to the king’s side, taking his arm, and with faltering steps the old man came down from the dais and paced softly through the hall. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Seeing our state, the old man walked over to a well, unhooked a tin pail, and dropped it carefully down into the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Because of the old man's long last illness, and the neglect of the housekeeper, it was some time since they had been cleaned. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The old man behind the counter glared at me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, the old man arrived at the house with the Leopard and the Lion. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mina and I both felt so, and simultaneously we each took one of the old man’s hands and bent over and kissed it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“He ran off like a scalded dog. Meantime, Lonna and my old man get into this humongous fight—” “The one you told me about.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some went reluctantly, yet they went . . . and one scarred old man returned a brief time later, hopping and grinning, his hands overflowing with figs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Lommy and some others started to squeal, the old man tinned on them too. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The old man tried to hand him the cane but he pushed it away. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When they had gone a little distance, the old man put his mouth so close to Digory’s ear that it tickled, and whispered: “Now, my boy. Slip on your ring. Let’s be off.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

This afternoon when she arrived at the Junklot to work on her own mural, it took Sierra a few seconds to find the old man’s face peering out from the brick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The old man peeked around the hood and smiled when he saw me wearing Miles’s jacket. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Come harvest I’d be sitting up in the house like some dried up old man while everyone worked themselves to a happy ache by getting the job done. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I swear the old man is losing his mind.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You boys fight every day in the streets,” the old man went on, as he gloved me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he lingered for some minutes more, talking to the old man, whose name, he discovered, was not Weeks—as one might have gathered from the inscription over the shopfront— but Charrington. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Billy Bums said to me, “Is that right? And what about your old man? How many years you live with him? I got a nickel here and you know what it says?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Prodigious, old man!” he cried, using his latest big word for anything he liked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old man nodded and gave Baba a salute. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo flinched, thinking that the old man was going to hit him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I guess we ran out of time,” the old man continued dreamily. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Was this the face of a child who bored an old man or an idiot who jumped to conclusions? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Where is the Station Inspector?” the old man yelled down the hallway again. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure what the old man was talking about, but he had an idea. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Well," the old man said, stroking his heard, "I am indebted to you for having eaten your food." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

After an hour, the elevator doors opened and the old man came out, was he going to leave Oskar up there, so high up, so alone, who would keep him safe? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me the projector,” the old man finally said. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

An old man, with a breastplate of gold, wouldn’t have lied just to acquire six sheep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am going to transmit the memory of snow,” the old man said, and placed his hands on Jonas’s bare back. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t particularly outstanding—just an old man dying an old man’s death—but afterwards I dropped to the floor. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The old man would count it out carefully, sorting the coins and stacking them up neatly, like with like. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old man is well away now, back at his bunk. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hugo finished sweeping, he handed the broom back to the old man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

There was a frayed weariness in the old man’s words, as though they had long since worn out. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so the old man bowed several times, gave his blessings and stammered his wishes for a good journey. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet watched the old man clear his face and stiffen his back and place the hat carefully, formally on his head. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to unwad the crumpled paper and flatten it out as the old man watched tiredly. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You better be fearless and confident yourself, old man,” he said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man still had two drinks of water in the bottle and he used half of one after he had eaten the shrimps. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man with dark brown skin, piercing eyes, and slick gray hair had been watching them from the back of the room. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the sight of him sitting fearfully on the sofa, tiny and wretched as a sick old man, she understood that she could expect no help. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t think it was time to head straight again, but he trusted the old man. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“After my folks split, I stole my old man’s car. Red-hot Camaro. I was drinking whiskey and beer and crashed the vintage piece into a bank.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One old man even wore a suit coat. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean it,” the old man said sadly, noticing how fiercely the sergeant was handling the little cards. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more than all that, today you get the chance to give an old man his son back. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Pretend you didn’t hear him say that,” I heard the old man tell my opponent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know. But an old man can change his mind, can’t he?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, anyway,” the old man would’ve said, “there’s still the seven medals.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man gave me an amused look. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old man stood his ground and raised one hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The chieftains were silent for a few moments as they listened to what the old man was saying. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking very small behind a high-backed chair, the old man stood for a moment with his clear, childlike blue eyes closed and his bps moving, then drew out his chair and sat down. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the same gentle old man I remembered, but I was overwhelmed by the distance between us. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s not. 9TH JUROR: For an old man who had a stroke it’s a long walk. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The old man huddled in the dark doorway, his bony face lit by the burning yellow in the windows of distant skyscrapers.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning, Ranofer saw that it was the old man he had met in the papyrus marsh. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then slowly, with bent back, the old man hobbled past them and was gone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But all we want to do is go in an' kneel on the floor," the old man said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eighty-five is a lucky number,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if his own flesh went to feed him the old man should eat. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The old man knew how to read, and had already read the book. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the old man without speech and went out into the early morning. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Nately asked, growing intrigued and charmed with the old man in spite of himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My mother’s voice would come sweeping down the hallway with just enough spice in it to let the old man know that once again, he’d pushed too hard. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hugo reached into his pocket and took out the automaton’s drawing, which he had taped back together, and handed it to the old man, who took it in his shaking hands. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The son greeted his father, but the old man didn’t recognize him and vanished without speaking. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This old man with no teeth and a straw hat showed me how to tie the plants up to stakes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward he walked through the snow to the Garden City depot, a work-worn old man, stooped and thinned-down by the cancer that would kill him a few months hence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s voice was very soft; Longstreet could hardly hear. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reaches down to pick up the cane, hands it to him, and makes sure the old man is stable before walking back to the car. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Why are you rushing back?" the old man's voice said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As we walked through the crowded tram, an old man stood up to give us seats together, and I tried to tell him to sit, but he gestured toward the seat insistently. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Call me Mac,” said the old man, his voice suddenly quiet and gentle. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The old man’s head was very old though and with his eyes closed there was no life in his face. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That old man don’t know what he talking about,” King says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They look us over without smiling or saying hello, and the old man seems very unhappy. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The old man in the courtyard had been telling the truth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Just as the chair began to move away, the old man caught the king's sleeve. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The old man had lived so long that he was nothing more than a pile of glass bones covered by a yellow skin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Mr. Dreher has already been a great nuisance to Father, and I’ve always admired the saintly patience with which he handled this pathetic old man on the phone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The old man had a weak voice, and I could barely hear him over the prayers of the worshipers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You are the King,” said the old man stubbornly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a crowd of men came swarming over the rocks and struck down the heads of the two young men and then the head of the old man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the only way to kill him,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camel was leading the old man slowly past. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it sits an old man with a bad comb-over and thick glasses, reading the newspaper. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He might be drinking a bowl of hot broth and complaining to the old man about the ugly girl who had tried to rob his purse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Also at the top of the mountain is supposed to be an old man, a man who too has many names. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There's an old man who keeps a small herd of goats on the other side of the Seam. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After much thought the old man convinced himself that it was not the god-raven that he had visited, but rather a giant canoe made by men. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he felt the blood trickling down his neck and, onto his chest, the old man shuddered, and the last strength went out of him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You are a stubborn old man. Your sweet-faced boys will only grow up to be Sons of the Harpy. Kill them now or kill them then.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He arrived at the river and asked the old man to take him across. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man's words were like a curse. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you have a mouth that runs on, old man,” White Deer snapped. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had to hand it to me, I thought: I had a knack for living up to the old man’s worst expectations. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third time this happened, the old man shot back with his .22. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one stirred or spoke until Ekheneos broke the spell—an old man, eldest of the Phaiakians, an oracle, versed in the laws and manners of old time. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nately’s father had a distinguished white mustache; this old man had no mustache at all. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He whips out an old man’s worn leather wallet and shows me his driver’s license. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Ethyne gave the old man a piercing look. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And the old man had given five million dollars to colored people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why don’tcha take that stuff about the old man—the old man who lived there—and heard everything. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t leave much for your old man,” he complained. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra gazed at the old man’s sad face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nhamo thought the old man would take her to the local graveyard, but he led her to his house. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been waiting for more people to show up before he began his speech, but Rocky and Tayo and old man Jeff were the only people out in the wind that afternoon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could not take his mind off the battle or off the old man who had died. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Werner could bang on the door, march the old man away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The old man was tall and bald and wearing a gray suit. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The old man in the feathered hat fell down, promptly picked himself up, and continued his lopsided run to the queue. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Will held the glass tightly and closed his eyes while the old man did something to his hand. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad would have taken off after Jasper Jr., and Mom would have gone to the police to tell them about the strange old man. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was not so bad to be an old man, drifting. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Count Greffi. You remember the old man who was here when you were here before.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The old man opened one eye; he shrugged. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“High time the old man got himself some help.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had a prickling feeling that his father was still out there, watching for him; that the old man knew just where he was, and was circling in for a kill. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is,” said the old man incredulously. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man singing to himself as he struggled against the river seemed like someone I might be able to trust. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You alone know whether it will harm your soul to help an old man avoid pain and humiliation,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Will stepped up the lead, away from the old man, crouching, ready to jump or fight or leap out of the way. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying on the lead, in the full sun, was an old man with white hair. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, poor old man. Got blind in both eyes, you know.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s me,” said the old man, and, realizing this reply to be silly and strange, fell silent, his lips working. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man came out of the place. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Before I can make up my mind about him, I become aware that there are others moving toward the place, drawn by the old man’s keening. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the pit that would have taken your arm off, old man.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe all that had happened was beginning to work on the old man’s mind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man glanced up at me from a lean, seamed face devoid of all expression. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For there had definitely been an old man; Harry had watched him fall to the ground. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When he removed his helm, Sansa saw that he was an old man with hair as pale as his armor, yet he seemed strong and graceful for all that. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Your stew is excellent,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man coughed, rolled his head slightly, opened and closed his eyes, and coughed again. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fever of insomnia fatigued him so much that one dawn he could not recognize the old man with white hair and uncertain gestures who came into his bedroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Supposing the coroner this afternoon had read that note, it would have made it a little bit more tricky for you, wouldn't it, Max, old man?” said Favell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bands of gold flooded over the old man’s head and shoulders, streaming down his arms to his slender hands, where they pooled with meaning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The old man rode a skinny pinto mare with hip bones and ribs poking against the hide like springs of an old car seat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon, his thick cat’s tail erect, stood on her lap with his blazing eyes fixed on the old man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that big field, the old man, whose name we learned after we agreed to buy the car was Ralph Mason, gave my dad a quick lesson in the vagaries of manual transmission. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Matt thought about the old man lying on a hospital bed, waiting for the one person who could bring him a glimpse of his youth. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo charged at the old man, but the old man was quick and caught his arms. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

His old man had actually killed his moms and then tried to kill him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The old man followed them, still talking, mostly about money, and greed, and ingratitude. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The old man handed her a handkerchief when she was finished. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might be an old man, but he still carried authority. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Amolf Karstark is an old man with a crooked back, and even in his youth he was never the fighter Lord Rickard was. The rigors of the campaign may well kill him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At last with a little shrug, he said, “Be so kind as to give us some advice, old man. We’ve come on a fairly important errand.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles would not face the old man, but turned his back to him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The old man reined up and stood for a moment immobile, head turned eastward toward the enemy, the gray hat on the horn of the saddle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son, my son,” the old man cried. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He walked into the evening air, which was cool and smelled like juniper smoke from the old man’s fire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A kindly, educated old man with a big white Panama hat who worried mostly about his digestion, my grandfather entertained no political ambitions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He saw the old man limp in my arms and fell back a step. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The boy took the old army blanket off the bed and spread it over the back of the chair and over the old man’s shoulders. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire class—the schoolhouse was full on Saturday mornings—shifted at their desks while the old man sputtered and choked on the day’s lessons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

On a piece of warped wood, I saw a faded painting of an old man in a toga. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some people, like the old man, seemed harmless. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe like an old man clearing his throat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later another pirogue came by, this one with an old man inside, a tuft of grizzled white hair on his head like a dollop of cream. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He smiles because he’s an old man of forty and he never had children but the ones he can talk to here in the Fever Hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They made certain no one got close to the old man without his leave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old man offered payment—several mules—for the cow. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The old man sat in silence for a moment, looking down at his rough hands. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She imagines their sticky thickness coating the old man’s throat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to drag the cart while the boy steered from behind and they built a fire for the old man to warm himself though he didnt much like that either. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“How did you sleep old man?” the boy asked. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was what one might call a very clean old man. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man crammed his beard in his mouth and began to chew it, as he generally did when he was put about He bit through one of the hairs, which stuck between two teeth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor old man, that rope of his broken by who knows what and him lost in the dark and frightened to death because of it. It’s too much. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The old man looked at the ungrateful people who stood before him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

At times Alba caught her grandfather staring at Clara until he turned white and sweet, and looked like an old man they had never seen before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, at the crack of dawn, the old man was opening his toy booth when Hugo approached. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old man looked as if he had not been out of the house in years. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There is good hope of it," said the old man. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The old man was there now, the old man with the wrinkled face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The boy walked with them to the car, leaving the old man to devour a fresh stack of pancakes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate and the old man sat wrapped in his solitary quilt and gripped his spoon like a child. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When his vision returned to normal, the boy was able to read what the old man had written in the sand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And something else was nagging at her: this old man was familiar in some long-lost way, and she just couldn’t place it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a stage whisper, the old man asked, “Whyever is she blue?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ba opened his mouth to protest when he heard, “Let her, old man. It’s her way of saying she’s not angry anymore.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Like hell if I’m spending a night in the rain because of your thick head,” the old man said hotly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It would be good to know how we may greet this stranger,” said an old man with a stern face. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lon tested the word on his tongue, though the reverence in the old man’s voice kept him from saying it aloud. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ku-Ang gasped and dropped the red stone in the old man's lap. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Here,” the old man said, opening a metal locker near the stove. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least it will have its mother’s breasts, says an old man. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Ignatius screamed, suddenly remembering the old man’s warnings about robberies. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great-grandfather was the old man who lived with them, as the river-pirate great- uncle was the old man who lived with us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the old man was looking at him with timid eagerness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Alfred passed an old man who lived in his building, and grabbed his arm. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the old man’s, her brown eyes glinted with amusement. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He and the old man talked far into the evening, while Fenoglio's grandchildren chased Meggie all over the nooks and crannies of the house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Far ahead, the old man scurries over the trails. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across town, in a little house that looked a lot like Alex’s, an old man sat in his den, watching the disaster unfold on TV. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

"He is an old man, and he's served me well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The old man was affronted, and Nhamo was too overcome with embarrassment to say anything more. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to buy some more beer when the old man suddenly got up and shuffled rapidly into the stinking urinal at the side of the room. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And the old man said, “Surely this was a very evil man to be thus hung.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The old man laid the food stamps on the counter again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the old man still watching him, though he kept his own eyes on the sails. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

At that moment the old man quickened his pace and came with surprising speed to the foot of the rock-wall. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Mi vida. I like that,” the old man said with a chuckle. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rebel pushed the old man to the ground, put a gun to his head, and ordered him to get up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And he was in much worse shape than the old man. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The guy he’d tackled scrambled to his feet and came at the old man, kicked him in the ribs three times in a row. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But one day, an old man arrived at school, wearing trousers with a mended patch near the knee, his face gaunt, his body bowed with the humility that poverty had forced on him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One of them, an old man with a white beard who was sitting in my row, even nodded at me and smiled, the corners of his eyes crinkling. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The old man looked at the soil that fed his peach tree. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, the old man would always announce it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Open your eyes,” said the old man with the robot. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The largest rat climbed onto the old man’s shoulders, swung up on the long gray mustache, past the big black button eyes, and onto the top of the man’s head. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A couple of schoolchildren, an old man, three women with stuffed shopping bags, a group of nuns...suddenly he grabbed Riccio's arm and pulled him inside a doorway. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man glanced uneasily toward the trees in their white mantles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On trembling knees the old man managed to stand. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We want to learn how to box,” the leader of our group said eagerly to the gym owner, an old man with a receding hairline. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked up from his bowl to say, “Eat, or all will be cold.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Longstreet saw the old man sag, breathe deeply, his mouth open. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lie down, old man, and I will bring you. your clean shirt. And something to eat.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man's expression was no longer quite so forbidding as he inspected Mo. “How extraordinary. You must be really keen on the book,” he murmured. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ranofer smiled uncertainly and the old man’s face seamed into a thousand wrinkles of pleasure. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Tidbit bounded over to the old man and gave him a big hug. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was gaining line steadily now. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the old man talked, Matt pictured in his mind the dusty cornfields and purple mountains of Durango. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last when Aragorn spoke of the death of Boromir and of his last journey upon the Great River, the old man sighed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Lyra stood back to give Will room, and the old man came to stand beside him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked up, smiling, when Jonas entered the room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am your friend,” the old man said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Therefore, the el train had been roaring by the old man’s window for a full ten seconds before the body fell. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened and a tall, stoop-shouldered old man came in. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he inflicted a terrible punishment upon the old man. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the road he halted, briefly apprehensive about the backhoe, but he recommenced his hasty retreat with a jump as the old man bleated, “Get going! Beat it! Go home!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandchildren have been admiring the tame marten that boy has on a chain,” said the old man as he approached. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Behind the old man came Daft Donald and Tam Lin, both pushing wheelchairs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no way to keep its scent out of the water and the old man knew that a very bad time was coming. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was empty save for an old man dragging a crate. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old man sat on the threshold of his house and waved at us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You can live here,” the old man said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take the old man to the room where we once locked Darius,” Capricorn ordered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There’s a painting of an old man in a purple robe over by the door. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Behind her the old man was muttering to himself. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s creepy to think back, now that I know what the old man was involved in. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

That was the saddest thing I ever saw with them, the old man thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to have locks, but he cut them off when he started working full-time, and now his hair is short and neat like an old man's even though he's only twenty-two. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“What are they doing?” the old man asked, pointing at the people in the plaza. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my old man ... you know how he is.... Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three children and an old man were playing football with a tin can on the other side of the square. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That was Gandalf’s mark, of course, and the old man was Gandalf the Wizard, whose fame in the Shire was due mainly to his skill with fires, smokes, and lights. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He walked, dignified, from group to group, smiling and filling the drinking cups, and you’d have sworn from his look that never until tonight had the old man been absolutely happy. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it were the weapons they had stolen from the old man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re cleaning up because Mr. Woodwell has been invited to supper and Dad says it don’t matter if the old man is halfway blind, he still knows dirt from dirt. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The old man put his sack on his lap and began to feel around inside it with both hands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I suspect I m seeing things, like a crazy old man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how' come that old man ain’t showed up yet.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico leaned on it like it was an old man’s cane. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The ship nudged an iceberg!” said an old man with a bushy mustache. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he lay there wallowing now in the seas and the old man pulled the skiff up onto him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I leave, the old man calls out, “Don’t be stealing nothing. That’s all motel property.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The old man stood, or almost stood, leaning heavily on the broad shoulders of his children, staring into the leaden sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were passionate women, but their devotions were like roots; they were sunk into the past towards the old man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The old man gripped his grandson’s hand tighter, picked up his suitcase, and walked away. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Oh, much worse than the old man, much worse! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am an old man. Show the respect due an elder,” Papa snapped. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The old man was right where they’d left him, in the middle of the food truck parking lot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The old man took great pride in the boy’s accomplishments. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God let him jump,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a crying shame you never had kids, old man. Just think what a good grandpa you could’ve been.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s disgraceful to treat an old man like that,” someone murmured. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

After all, who knew how long the old man was going to make him work? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He remembered answering the question “Am I dead yet?” over and over the last time the old man visited. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In so many ways, I’m still older than the old man before me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, Magistrate Tiger exited his carriage and went to the old man, who was still engrossed in his hook. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The old man called me over; I went. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he also could not read and they discussed its possible meaning, Wang Lung and the old man and the two boys. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He smelled wood smoke and sage in the old man’s clothes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man then turned back to his peach tree. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Because he came here the most times,” the old man said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to ask Vikus what was going on, but the old man stood in the High Hall in a blur of bat wings giving commands. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Julian R. Eastman was an old man, but suddenly his mind, too, was old. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two boys were in the old man’s room and in the third room O-lan gave birth alone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

And he said, “My old man says you take a good Chink, I mean a good one—why, he’s about as good as anybody. They’re honest.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry! It was the folly of an old man!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Are you calling me a communiss?” the policeman asked the old man while he tried to avoid the lashing of the lute string. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man turned back to his wagon and began to extemporize. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I think you heard wrong, old man. Yes, sir, I do.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was called Baba Joseph and he often came to talk. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she picked the largest peach on the stand and handed it to the old man. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The old man spoke of the dusty cornfields and purple mountains of Durango. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then he had bought the old man a scotch and treated a foursome of pool players to a pitcher of Budweiser. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At last the old man agreed to come, although he was unhappy to leave the bush in which he was living. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But the old man’s blood was running backward in his veins and God wouldn’t reconsider. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“They were a group of sisters taking their father to Peshawar for medical treatment. They were having a difficult time with the old man because he was so sick.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When Yoren had dragged her into that alley she'd thought he meant to kill her, but the sour old man had only held her tight, sawing through her mats and tangles with his dagger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He spoke to one of the black brothers, an old man with a twisted back and a tangled beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The old man’s helper rode a black pony, hunching low over its neck with his face in the mane. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The usual brightness was gone from his eyes and he walked with a sort of glum determination like an old man. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The old man’s brows are down, but his face doesn’t even register a reaction. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Suesetta starts laughing—so loud that the old man hears her. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m more tired of missing Isaac, is all. Just an old man with an old love, I guess.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Behind me, an old man fell to the ground. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman, good with the bow and arrow, took them with her; the old man took the water gourd. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Winston stood watching it occurred to him that the old man, who must be eighty at the least, had already been middle-aged when the Revolution hap-pened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t risk him doing anything crazy,” the old man said, his voice surprisingly shaky. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Nately’s father was a sober, philosophical and responsible man; this old man was fickle and licentious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Speak up," said the old man, cupping a hand to his ear. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the bony hands were sure and quick as the old man stuffed small jars and rolls of tape into the valise. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man clutched his heart and tipped forward. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were deserted, except for an occasional old man or woman doddering about. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t explain why I wanted to drive one hundred twenty-five miles to ask an old man with memory problems what he and my mom knew about the white sharks coming to Massachusetts. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was left an old man in an empty house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“There used to be shops here and hotels. Neon lights and restaurants. I used to buy kites from an old man named Saifo. He ran a little kite shop by the old police headquarters.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo stood, staring in delight, until the old man’s voice shook him out of his trance. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He opened the door for his grandfather, but he let it swing shut on the old man’s heel. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man istened with his hat in his hand, looking down at the ground and chewing the air with his empty gums. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dark old man with large green eyes that gave his face a ghostly phosphorescence and with a cross of ashes on his forehead. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He rubbed himself dry and then whispered, “Have you wood? Build up the fire a little, old man. I come to you in need, I mean you no harm.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop that coughing. Go lay down in the back and rest up till the old man comes.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very positive about it. 3RD JUROR: He’s an old man. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after our parents left, Miss Lilian hired a caretaker, a lazy old man named Jimmy Watts. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The old man stopped the horse and pointed east. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man stepped out into the light, came forward. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stepfather beats ... uh, 1 mean, his old man is real strict. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark jumps to his feet as the man brings his weapon up and points it directly at the old man’s face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The old man put out his black hands at the people around him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yeah, I heard. Like you said, twenty was for the mule. The other twenty was to maybe be a little help for an old man.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man stood with the wind raining coldness on his hands. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“True—true—” said the old man in alarm, and he began to take great gulps of the hot tea. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The child noticed that something in the old man had changed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man wore a pair of pin-striped trousers and a morning coat with a flower in the buttonhole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Certainly glad you finally made it, old man,” said the Humbug, cordially pumping Milo’s hand. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

If his father were here, riding shotgun around the lake, the old man might have glanced over for a second, understanding perfectly well that it was not a question of offensive language but of fact. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z